OK, let’s get this out of the way, a number of people are telling me that they have seen the ad in the Arkansas Democrat Gazette of my upcoming speech on humor and health for the Active Living program at Baptist Health. It has run in the paper under the title “Chuckle Therapy,” and that is bothersome to me on several levels. Continue reading
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For the Glory of God
Well, I read a fascinating story this week in USA Today sports, maybe you heard or read the story:
A hole-in-one is rare on the golf course, but what are the odds of a blind golfer sinking one? Leo Fiyalko couldn’t see it, but his golf buddies did — a hole-in-one on the fifth hole at the Cove Cay Country Club. Continue reading
Supersize Me
We have had a flurry of new restaurants in that have opened up lately in Maumelle, particularly of the fast food variety. I really like one of the new places, called Taco Bueno, which is a chain out of Texas. It is really nothing more than a supped up Taco Bell, but it is better than Taco Bell and better than some of the Senior Tequila knock-offs that occupy strip malls everywhere in Maumelle. I went by the other night to take an order home after working late, and in doing so I bumped up against one of my personal limitations. Continue reading
All About Eve
People at the hospital are always asking my opinion about things such as current events, and fortunately for them I almost always have an opinion to offer. Though I have learned the fine art of diplomacy along with fine tuning my ability to read people like a book, I am sometimes guarded in my answers. They say of course you shouldn’t speak of politics or religion in mixed company, but since religion is my business I try to make it everyone else’s business as well. Continue reading
The Case of the Honest Politician
I am excited to have two chaplain residents joining my department from Slovakia this August, Dasa and Klara, both graduating from seminary in Banska Bystrica, Slovakia very soon. I know little about Slovakia, but in my correspondence with them and in my time talking with them I have been impressed on several levels. I am impressed with their sense of calling, their willingness to pack up and come to the United States for a year so that they can help find their place in ministry and take back new opportunities to the peoples of Slovakia. Continue reading
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