I love sports. I love competition. I love my Bruin basketball team. But I am thinking that the competitive spirit has gone a bit too far! I offer as evidence, the Alabama football fan who recently...

One of my favorite all time book titles is Everything I Needed to Know, I Learned in Kindergarten. Well, by the time you are reading these words, I should be standing in a stream in Colorado with a...

Joe Stowell tells a story on one of his online daily devotionals about the uniqueness of Stradivarius violins. He indicates that Stradivarius lived in a small Italian village in the 1700s. "Since he...

While waiting for a flight a few weeks ago, I happened to pick up The Arizona Republic newspaper. And as it usually happens, the part I got stuck with was the back section; no news, no sports. But I...

Last week CNN ran a story about Christians being tortured in the Sinai. It stated that Bedouin tribes are conducting human trafficking trade on a massive scale and they are focused on Christians. It...

I have invested more than thirty years in Christian school education. During that time, my fellow school workers and I have influenced over 3000 children ages 5-13. I am deeply committed to the...

Among the reasons I love summer is the profound gift of time...time to read. As I was organizing my vacation reading material on my Kindle, I noticed that I did not have any C. S Lewis books "teed...

For most of us, English grammar is a challenge. It is particularly difficult when we start considering the various tenses associated with our language. By most counts, there are 12 different tenses...

In the summer between my junior and senior year of high school, my family and I moved to Cornwall, England. My father was stationed at a Royal Air Force base near the little town of Newquay. A few...

Last week, a 37 year old Ohio auto mechanic was declared dead by his medical team. His heart had stopped beating for over 45 minutes. As the nurses were preparing his body for the family to say...

There was a report out recently from London's Fire Brigade. It seems that in 2010 there were some 1300 "trapped or stuck" incidents and each incident cost the city about $445. I laughed at the kinds...

An anonymous post on Babble.com reflected a couple's reaction that recently discovered that they are expecting twin boys: "We are pissed and pregnant with twins." Apparently this "pushing forty"...