What’d a Fifties Thanksgiving Look Like?
Kids today can’t imagine life without a microwave, instant mashed potatoes and packets of turkey dressing. It’s possible to purchase a fully-cooked turkey from the store and just reheat. If going the cook-it-yourself route today, most turkeys are sealed in a bag so the cook need not pull the turkey out to baste the bird. […]
Five Tips Re: Paris Attack Fears
Fear grips viewers thousands of miles from Paris as anxious reporters struggle to describe the gruesome carnage rolling in the background footage. The unthinkable has happened; the innocent have been slaughtered in the name of ISIS. Over and over the news broadcast the disturbing scenes, igniting an impenetrable cage of fear around the […]
One Amazing Tale For Dog-Lovers
I listened with rapt fascination, picturing Alistair Begg’s unfolding account. What a story. His words provided much more than one amazing tale for dog-lovers. The image unwrapped the glorious truth of the security found in the love of our Creator. Alistair and his wife strolled the quiet streets of the small rural village. They glanced […]
How Can Totally Blind People Read?
Gliding the fingertips of my left hand over a large volume with complicated raised dots, I faced the shattering reality of blindness. I lived in a completely black world. Learning to read braille paralleled the difficulty I had acquiring facility with a new language. Even if I could speed up my snail’s pace reading with […]
How Does the Refugee Crisis Affect Europe? Part II
Though much less dramatic than the thousands storming the European border crossings, their stories need to be told. The incredible and prolonged intrusion into the lives of the ordinary folk in European countries, presented in last week’s post, might be justified if every undocumented person sought freedom from the horrors of war in Syria. Here’s […]