I’m traveling to Charlottesville today for the Virginia Festival of the Book. Have a great weekend and I leave you with someone else’s Lenten message: “Fast from indifference…feast on love.” That’s a Lenten discipline with power.  Pope Francis.

Silver Alert. It means someone who is older has gone missing. Amber alerts are signals that a young child is missing, and I can’t imagine how difficult that circumstance is. I got a call on Sunday saying that a dear friend in Little Rock had gone on a walk-about and was missing, a silver alert…

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Jesus taught in parables. He was a storyteller like me, but there is where the similarity ends. My problem with the parables is I always identify with the guy who should act or know better. I feel like Jesus is talking to me about my own failings. I’m the guy who passes up somebody who…

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Do you sometimes wonder about the Sabbath. Some honor it at different times than others, we sometimes pass strange laws about what you can and cannot buy on the Sabbath (In Arkansas, for the longest time you couldn’t buy razor blades on Sunday). I also don’t know if other faiths such as Sufi’s, Muslims, or…

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Over the years, I always admired the Catholics who attended Mass every morning. Vince Lombardi was one. I thought they had their priorities set better than I. I had an opportunity to talk to such a person recently, and I complemented him on his regular morning worship. His response surprised me: “I’m embarrassed that I…

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