I’ve done stories with Laurie Goodstein before, and she is a good reporter. Her most recent story in yesterday’s NY Times is both disturbing and not really surprising in view of the shift in the Zeitgeist of our culture. Here is the link and header for the story. Prisons Purge Books on Faith From LibrariesBy…

I must confess that I enjoy Jeff Foxworthy and his kin. I once heard him at a United Methodist annual conference meeting where I was speaking, and he brought down the house with his “you might be a United Methodist if….” parody of his famous “you might be a redneck if…” routine. Jeff is a…

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It is a rare thing when a work of a master writer shows up in print many many decades after all his significant work has long since been put into print. Having been less than overwhelmed by the previous efforts of J.R.R. Tolkien’s son Christopher to give us more from the Master of Middle Earth…

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