Alana and the Generations

Monday Morning, September 1, 2008
She was a quiet, diminutive woman, people would say.  The years pressed in, eighty-seven to be precise.  Age took away some of the height and weight, making her frame delicate and perhaps better said, fragile.  When she woke up last Friday morning, she seemed disoriented and distracted.
She couldn’t swallow her breakfast [...]

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Farewell, Beijing

Monday Morning – August 24, 2008
Maybe the Olympics were that much more stunning simply because so many of us watched it in high definition.  We’ve had high def for a while now, but those images from China were made for the big screen.  The Bird’s Nest filled the pixels with dazzling color; it was the [...]

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High School Atheists

Monday Morning – August 18, 2008
Summer camp is woven into the fabric of American life.  I went to church camp as a little boy, across the state line from our little mid-western town into Wisconsin on the shores of Lake Geneva.  When we became parents, we sent our kids off to camp, too.  All week [...]

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Gone fishin’…

No LeaderFOCUS this week.  See you next Monday.

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Tony Snow, et. al.

August 4, 2008
Tough to get ‘round it.  We hope and pray for healing.  We are grieved by a grim prognosis.  We are lifted up by the courage and the good fight and the technology of medicine.  And then, the end comes.  It’s the one thing we didn’t want.  It’s what we prayed against.
It’s in those [...]

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