When Ed Smith retired from his law practice, he and his wife, Linda, dreamed of all the things they would do. But three months later, he was diagnosed with...
Personal spirituality
These people of faith are volunteering outside the box when it comes to serving those in need. Read on to learn how they are putting their faith to work and...
I worked for more than a decade as the editor of a busy little weekly newspaper, and I often complained that the people who stopped by my office “just to...
The Body of Christ is the best medicine for body and soul, regardless of whether we are "worthy" to receive him. "Are you a priest?" There...
I often teach men and women who return to college later in life to complete a degree. It is not unusual that some of them are older than I am, and I often...
Aging. In a go-get-’em, hyper world, it is a dreaded companion, a sign of inevitable decline and, eventually, death. Yet what the world sees as an ending...
The spiritual side of getting older. The signs are plentiful. You begin to pay attention to those drug ads on the evening newscasts promising relief from...
Few human activities are more basic than walking, and few more taken for granted. You need to watch an infant to be reminded that walking is a hard-won...
Religious devotions are a little like lost-and-found objects. Something gets lost, at least in the sense of losing sight of it. And then we come on it again...
