Fred Craddock’s recent book ‘Craddock Stories’ edited by Mike Graves and Richard F. Ward (St. Louis: Chalice Press, 2001) is a gold mine of Craddock’s stories used in both preaching and teaching. Here is one sample: “When I was in Cincinnati, I met a lot of people I was glad to see…One of them was…

Bart Ehrman is both an interesting person and an engaging lecturer. He speaks well, he writes well, he obviously has a gift for what he does. I like Bart though I find his spiritual pilgimage troubling, and as an alumnus of UNC I am sad to see him as the successor to Bernard Boyd at…

This movie is not for sissies. It is a powerful and gripping drama telling the tale of Truman Capote’s relationship with a murderer on death row in Levenworth Kansas, a story which became enshrined in the prize winner novelesque work of non-fiction entitled ‘In Cold Blood’. The movie deals with the brutal murder of a…

In freedom there’s a bondageWhich leads to endless choice.In bondage there’s a freedomExcusing loss of voice. What frees a person shows usWhat bound them long before.What binds a person demonstratesThe thing she loves the more. Commitment and concessionContrast in this respectOne’s accepted freelyThe other with regret. Freedom is hardly freeingIf only freedom from.What good is…

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