Tomorrow's World

Commentary

Roger Meyer (guest columnist)

We've all heard the public apologies of company spokespersons, sports figures, politicians, movie stars or celebrities. We can usually tell whether they mean it or if they're just reading a carefully worded script. When we've been wronged, we expect an apology. But it may be hard for us to apologize when we...

Memories of My Dad

Winston Gosse (guest columnist)

My Dad was a hard and dedicated worker. He always had ongoing projects around the house and made sure his sons in particular were contributors to those projects. He knew how to work hard, but also cherished play and instruction time with his children. He had little schooling, only achieving second grade, but...

The Breath of the Almighty

Brian Pomicter

If you think the world has gone crazy, or off the deep end, you are not alone. In his book, Future Shock, Alvin Toffler described the effect of rapid change on the human psyche. Toffler proposed that an accelerated rate of technological and social change leaves people disconnected, stressed and...

John Meakin

Nelson Mandela will be remembered around the world as the emblematic face of the struggle against apartheid. Perhaps more than any other individual, Mandela, who died on December 5, 2013 at age 95, embodied the effort to scrap apartheid in South Africa and bring the nation’s exclusive white...

A Reflection on Driving

Paul Kearns

It is amazing how often life’s everyday endeavors can point us to the spiritual. There is much we can learn from the most mundane situations, if only we take time to stop and meditate on them.

No religion???

Adam J. West

On December 14, 2008 I traveled to the town of Terezin, Czech Republic with a German friend of mine. There is a former Nazi SS controlled Jewish-ghetto-turned-concentration camp located there. Endless brick walls constitute the fortress…a sea of orange, yellow and red bricks against a canvas of...

It is your time

J. Davy Crockett III

In the human experience there is a great equalizer. No matter who we are, rich or poor, or somewhere in between, everyone has the same amount of it. It is what your life is made of.

You Might be a Pilgrim

Roger Meyer (guest columnist)

There is a comedian by the name of Jeff Foxworthy who originated the line, "If you (do this or that) … you might be a Redneck!" On this Thanksgiving Day holiday that started with Pilgrims – just for fun – let's adopt this gimmick to see if "…you might be a Pilgrim...

The World Next Door

John Wheeler

After NASA astronaut Neil Armstrong took his “one small step for man,” no one who knew of the accomplishment could ever look at the Moon in the same way again. Before, the Moon was a distant, ever-changing light in the sky, serving man in various ways (some of them described in Genesis 1:14-18,...

Old friends

J. Davy Crockett III

An observer of the modern scene recently opined that people today don't have many friends; some have none. In the hectic pace of modern life, it seems that many do not take the time or have the opportunity to develop lasting friendships.