As we begin a new school year, I’m reminded of a study done some years ago by a group of psychologists who came up with a theory that the fences around school playgrounds were a negative and inhibiting influence. They succeeded in having the fences removed at a certain playground, as an experiment. What happened […]

Tomorrow, August 6th, is the Feast of the Transfiguration of Our Lord on Mt. Sinai, when Jesus appeared with Moses and Elijah in the presence of Peter, James and John. This feast has a special and sentimental value for me since I served as a teenager on a monthly basis as an acolyte at the […]

Even though I purchased a new phone last year, I still receive notifications that I need “updates.” If you’re like most people, you get the same messages on your computer too! My late father, whom some will remember, was a retired engineer with AT&T. The last ten years with the company he worked on cell […]

There was a small Oklahoma town that had two Baptist churches and one distillery. Members of both churches complained that the distillery was giving the community a bad image. And to make matters worse, the owner of the distillery was an out spoken atheist. The church people had tried unsuccessfully for years to shut down […]