This has been a week for stirring oratory. Regardless of what our political views are, we would all have to admit that Tuesday’s Presidential Inauguration included a significant speech to the American people by President Barak Obama. But, like most important speeches, it wasn’t intended to please everyone. It was intended to motivate and move […]

The opening paragraph of a Rocky Mountain News story said, “Chesley Sullenberger spent practically his whole life preparing for the five-minute crucible that was US Airways Flight 1549.” In another article, a life-long friend of Sullenberger’s said that, in his mind, Sullenberger was the only pilot he knew who could have glided the Airbus 360 […]

One of the great mysteries of life is the way that each of us discovers the person that we are destined to become.  Modern psychology likes to make us think that what determines our character and calling in life is largely the result of genetics or the influence of parents. But each of us knows […]

October 17th has a special meaning for my family. It’s our daughter Megan’s birthday. We used to call Megan the “earthquake” baby because she arrived five hours before the earthquake in Northern California - prior to Hurricane Katrina, the single greatest natural disaster to hit the United States in over a century.  The “earthquake” baby […]

Today we come here asking a question. What does it mean to say that this child, named Jesus, the one named to greatness, called to inherit the throne of David, was born in a cave or a stable, born to a frightened young girl and a patient, confused carpenter?  What does it mean for the […]

The overflowing garbage cans and piles of evergreen branches at the curb tell me that Christmas Day is over. The recycling truck has taken away all of the torn wrapping and ribbon, and unusable boxes. There are a few days of the Christmas season left and one of the things that I have left is […]