Listen to “The Soil of Partial Truth” by Fred Smith A humorous article on Christian music included this quote from Joe Bob Briggs: “Christian music is bad songs written [...]
Listen to “Ain’t Too Proud To Beg” by Fred Smith Bishop Michael Curry’s royal wedding sermon went viral last weekend partly due to one quote: “Jesus did not get an [...]
Listen to “And You Have So Many” By Fred Smith This being the week of Mother’s Day, I remember one of my father’s favorite stories about his mother. They lived in a very poor [...]
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 “More Than A Singing Cow.” It’s not often I ask someone to pray for me before going to a museum or library. But last year I did ask that of my brother-in-law [...]
Listen to “Nothing Left To Prove.” All of my ‘aha’ moments in life have come from reading, silence, or listening to others. Except one, and that was at lunch with a friend. We [...]
Listen to “The Great Divide.” While guaranteed to be controversial, Michael Gerson’s essay The Last Temptation in the April issue of The Atlantic has captured 150 years of [...]
Listen to “A Fool’s Errand” In the Baptist church where I grew up, we heard rumors of “intellectuals” lurking in the world beyond our safe fellowship who relished the [...]
In his book, “The Greatest Generation” Tom Brokaw wrote, “At a time in their lives when their days and nights should have been filled with innocent adventure, love, and the lessons of the [...]
