It is worth noting, in the thick of our great national quarantine, that we have gone in a heartbeat from an ordinary civil society to a step short of martial law.

It’s hard to take the long view when the short term looks so uncertain for so many.

“I will stand my watch and set myself on the rampart, and watch to see what He will say to me, and what I will answer when I am corrected. Then the Lord answered me and said: “Write the vision and make it plain on tablets, that he may run who reads it. For the vision is yet for an appointed …

Part 7-Shoddy Materials“12 Anyone who builds on that foundation may use a variety of materials—gold, silver, jewels, wood, hay, or straw. 13 But on the judgment day, fire will reveal what kind of work each builder has done. The fire will show if a person’s work has any value. 14 If the work …

Some years ago, life as I knew it was put on a sudden and dramatic hiatus in the form of an inattentive driver who attempted to cross U.S. 30 near Plymouth in the path of our car.

The virus pandemic has disrupted our lives and, in many cases, done serious harm to our livelihoods. Working from home helps some, but not all workers can benefit. Without such serious disruption, we take commuting for granted. Most Hoosiers work and live in the same county, but there are ma…

Is your head spinning?

Excerpts from the Saturday, March 20, 1847 edition of The Democratic Clarion, forerunner of The Princeton Daily Clarion:

Part 6-Good Bones“Because of God’s grace to me, I have laid the foundation like an expert builder. Now others are building on it. But whoever is building on this foundation must be very careful. For no one can lay any foundation other than the one we already have—Jesus Christ. Anyone who bui…

Excerpts of stories featured in the Saturday, March 5, 1847 edition of The Democratic Clarion, forerunner of The Princeton Daily Clarion.

Part 4-Cornerstone“For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, you are God’s building. According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I have laid the foundation, and another builds on it. But let each one take heed how he builds on it. For no other fo…

When I was a kid, the idea that God sees everything I do was unnerving.

Excerpts of stories from the Saturday, Feb. 27, 1847, edition of The Democratic Clarion, forerunner to The Princeton Daily Clarion.

I backed out of my driveway Thursday morning and happened to glance down at my phone charging in the console of the car.

I'm always confessing something. It's good for me. We're instructed all over the place in the Bible to own up and change! 

News items from the Saturday, Feb. 13, 1847, edition of The Democratic Clarion, forerunner of The Princeton Daily Clarion.