Many of my favorite authors – like Annie Dillard, Mary Oliver, Tish Harrison Warren, and Wendell Berry – encourage us to look for beauty in the ordinary. Books are written about [...]
Listen to “A Soul At Risk” by Fred Smith You may have been watching the news this week about the indictment of Jeffrey Epstein for sex trafficking in children. What has been so [...]
Listen to “No Words” By Fred Smith When I came out of the Navy I had developed an acute allergy for profanity. All four years I had listened to men young and old who could not [...]
Listen to “Repaid by Love” by Fred Smith Stories come in all shapes, don’t they? Today, there is an industry devoted to people anxious to understand their personal [...]
Listen to “Rest In Peace Mrs. Perkins” by Fred Smith Mrs. Perkins stepped out from her pew and walked down the aisle of our Baptist church to rededicate her life on a regular [...]
Listen to “Bearing Witness” by Fred Smith The first time I read the phrase “bearing witness” was in Elie Wiesel’s book “Night” recounting the horrors of the Holocaust and the [...]
Listen to “Mama’s Boy” by Fred Smith If you visit Elk Lake, Minnesota and the headwaters of the Mississippi, you will see a stream that is about 20 feet across and 2 feet [...]
Listen to “The Widow’s Great Treasure” by Fred Smith For years I have treated the story of the widow’s mite as an illustration of sacrificial giving. So remarkable is the [...]
Listen to “White Noise” by Fred Smith The last time I watched a movie about whales was…never. I did buy a Judy Collins album years ago titled, “Whales and Nightingales” that [...]
Listen to “The Four Hundred Pound Day” by Fred Smith Tiger Woods‘ victory at the Master’s is a myth. I know that sounds like a post on a fringe site but I’m not [...]
