The Working Poor. We attended the Victory Health Partners dinner on Tuesday. Several hundred people gather at a convention center in Mobile, Alabama in support of a Christian ministry to the working poor. Since I worked in a summer camp and learned how difficult it is to cook for several Read more…
Happy Passover to all my Jewish friends. Enjoy your Seder meal. My understanding is Passover is a family, community and education. I wish you the best. Happy Easter to all who share the pain and hope of the season. The 40 days prior to Easter is Lent. Our church spent Read more…
March Madness. March Madness and post season basketball tournaments are up and running. NIL money has changed the landscape of college athletics. Clearly the highest level of the NCAA Men and Womens Division 1 Championship will be played between professional teams. The day of the student-athlete is long gone at Read more…
Azalea time in Mobile. Beautiful time of the year. Immigration. As most of you know, I think our problems are more sophisticated than the simplistic my-way or the highway, black-white approaches. I think that most issues have complexities and subtleties we need to consider. Immigration is a complicated issue that Read more…
Charles Sonny Burton. Previously I wrote of my sorrow that the State of Alabama was going to execute a man who did not kill anyone. A child of the victim, jurors and others did not want an execution. The man who pulled the trigger was given a life sentence. It Read more…
Thou Shalt Not Kill. I am very sad. Look closely at the picture. The state of Alabama is going to kill the man this week. He was one of several men who robbed a store. He left the store. One robber stayed behind and killed a clerk. The killer was Read more…
Death. At my age, loss is something you learn to accept. Friends, family, classmates, church friends have all died with the last year. Losing famous people is a different matter. If they improved our world, made my life more fun or interesting, I do feel some grief. I was deeply Read more…
How I Escape from Our Divisiveness. I am a big sports fan. Last week I shared the story of an amazing young runner. Several events between last Thursday and Monday night provided an additional abundance of great sports moments for me. It was not my typical weekend and the events Read more…
Sam Ruthe. In the early 1960’s, I happened to be home from college and decided to attend a track meet at my old high school, Wichita North. I was uncomfortable attending the meet because one of my biggest disappointments in high school was my failure to qualify for the state Read more…
Winter Storm. I hope everyone is recovering from the polar vortex faced by most of the country. My sister-in-law and her daughter’s family live in Nashville. They lost power. My niece stayed at the Vanderbilt hospital working to protect her patients. The other family members went out of town until Read more…