Growing up Southern Baptist I have indelible memories of the Sunday School offering envelope used by the church. It was more than a tracking device for offerings. We were also graded by our [...]
Listen to “My Trivial Sins” by Fred Smith No one would describe me as a product of diversity. As a Southern Baptist, I grew up sure of our traditions and practices but not our [...]
Listen to “The Arena” by Fred Smith Long before being appointed Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos in an interview spoke about something she had learned on a trip to Israel [...]
Listen to “Crossing The Line” by Fred Smith One of the most pronounced trends in the non-profit world in the last ten years has been the number of men and women in business [...]
Listen to “All Things In Common” By Fred Smith I posted an article on the shrinking of the middle class as an increasing number of people are falling into the category of [...]
Listen to “An Unremarkable Life” by Fred Smith I re-publish this every few years to honor my father and grandfather. They were so different and each found it difficult to love [...]
Listen to “Jars of Clay or Faberge?” A conversation this week with Dan Haseltine, the lead vocalist for the band Jars of Clay and the founder of Blood: Water Mission started me [...]
Listen to “Stuck” Philip Yancey wrote about Dr. Paul Brand, the brilliant surgeon, who worked for many years in obscurity with lepers here in the States and in India. “He [...]
For some time now I have been questioning if philanthropy is one of those words that has either lost its traditional definition (love of mankind) or should never have been used to describe giving [...]
Looking back now, it is difficult to believe in early 1972 I was singing “Bridge Over Troubled Water” in a choir for one of Arthur Blessitt’s crusades in Boston. You might remember Arthur as the [...]
