What do you do with leftovers?

It is impossible to go to a banquet or wedding reception in our country without food being leftover. Running out of food makes the caterers look bad, the hosts look chintzy and leaves a lot of unhappy, hungry people not in the best of all moods. So there is always an...

What recharges your batteries?

Medical experts tell us that stress – be it good or bad, has the same effect on the body.  It wears us down, raises blood pressure, decreases our ability to perform our daily tasks.  But here is the interesting thing about stress.  The body is unable to tell the...

Do you ever thank God for your weakness?

Imagine how hard it was for Paul to say those words. “When I am weak, I am strong.” Paul was brilliant. Highly educated. Hard working. Physically – he was a tough nut – he survived shipwrecks, stoning, whippings, inprisonment. He was socially skilled – he could...

What do you know about crowd behavior?

It’s the fourth of July week, and back home for me, Fair Saint Louis is gearing up.  It attracts up to one and a half million people over the course of the holiday week.  And it had been a mainstay of my 4th of July holiday.  (not quite so much as I get older) I loved...

What were you born to do?

I’m not sure if that is a single character in all of the Scriptures who invokes the image of a prophet more clearly in our minds than John the Baptist. We picture him, I think, as an amalgam of all of the gospel accounts: dressed in camel’s hair, living in a desert,...

What is hard about being a dad?

Plant a radish.   Get a radish. Never any doubt.   That’s why I love vegetables; You know what you’re about! Plant a turnip.   Get a turnip. Maybe you’ll get two.  That’s why I love vegetables; You know that they’ll come through! While...