As I do every Christmas season, I took time one December evening to watch It's a Wonderful Life. As many times as I have seen it, I always find something new. Do you remember that pivotal scene where frustrated, stymied George is encouraged by his mom to walk down to...

The Rose Bowl played on New Year’s Day, January 1, 2021, was unique, because it was the first Rose Bowl to be played in the state of Texas. And though great plays were made in that recent game, and though many great plays have been made over the course of one hundred...

It all started with Montgomery Ward Department Store, which in 1939 was looking for a marketing gimmick and prevailed on one of its bright young men in the advertising department to compose a Christmas poem. Robert May produced a little ditty that Montgomery Ward then...

The year was 1962, the month was October, and the crisis was the United States’ discovery that the Soviets had secretly installed ballistic missiles in Cuba. The world waited with bated breath as the world’s two superpowers engaged in a dangerous dance of...

I know exactly where I was when the seed of this sermon was planted. I was running through the so-called Eternal City of Rome in the early morning, before dawn. I passed various famous buildings of ancient Rome, enduring emblems of the empire’s astounding wealth,...