I met Ted Turner in 1977 on “mattress night” at an Atlanta Braves baseball game. Fraternities got discount tickets to fill some of the thousands of empty seats. Frat boys competed by piling the most brothers on a mattress. Sigma Chi of Emory didn’t “go to the mattresses” but 20 of us went to the…

A news story entitled “Holy Heist” from 4-16-26 inspired me to wake up with this parable…. Eli Naranja found such success playing a preacher on TV that a church hired him as their minister. Divisions erupted over Eli. Many pointed to past unethical practices and allegations of abuse; he fails at pastoral care. Others said…

Number 3 of God’s top ten is “do not use God’s name in vain”. That doesn’t mean cussing when you’re 5. “In vain” is using God’s seal of approval to justify what God is against. Pope Leo 14th summed it up: “Woe to those who manipulate religion in the very name of God for their…