An aging king woke up one day acutely aware of his own mortality. He had no son, and his was a culture where only a male heir could take his place.  He decided that he would adopt a son who then could take his place. He insisted that such an adopted … [Read more...]

I was parked in front of the mall, wiping off my car. I had just come from the car wash and was waiting for my wife to get out of work. Coming my way from across the parking lot was what society would consider a bum. From the looks of him, he had no … [Read more...]

  As the revered Mahatma Gandhi stepped aboard a train one day, one of his shoes slipped off and landed on the track. He was unable to retrieve it as the train was moving. Gandhi calmly took off his other shoe to the amazement of his … [Read more...]

Malachi 3:3 says: He sits as a refiner and purifier of silver. This verse puzzled some women in the Townline Bible study, and they wondered what this statement meant about the character and nature of God. One of the women, Clare Saffetz, offered … [Read more...]

By Michael Gartner My father never drove a car. Well, that’s not quite right. I should say I never saw him drive a car. He quit driving in 1927 when he was 25 years old, and the last car he drove was a 1926 Whippet. “In those days,” he told me … [Read more...]

Once upon a time, two brothers who lived on adjoining farms fell into conflict. It was the first serious rift in 20 years of farming side by side, sharing machinery, and trading labor and goods as needed without a hitch. Then the long … [Read more...]