Are we guilty of idealizing the past? I heard of one wise pastry cook who advertised:

Pies just like your mother used to make—$5.00 each.
Pies just like your mother thinks she used to make—$10.00 each.

…which reminds us that the memories we have about how good things were in the past don’t always conform to [...]

It seems to me that America has a “Warm Fuzzy” view of God!

A generation ago, the Hollywood figure who perhaps was most closely identified with God was Charlton Heston, whose commanding portrayal of godly men in The Ten Commandments and Ben Hur evoked images of a powerful, sovereign God who reigns [...]

One of the basic concepts of Euclidean plane geometry is that “the shortest distance between two points is a straight line.” It’s funny, though, how this concept can get confused in real life!
Last summer my wife and I traveled cross-country by automobile, taking in portions of Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, [...]