I love Christmas. But. This Christmas will feel a little – or maybe a lot – weird. Mom is gone, and that’s a colossal loss. I’m not sad for her, but I’m sad for us. Christmas was her favorite time…
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When Government Is God
From the mayor-elect of New York, Zohran Mamdani: “We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve and no concern too small for it to care about.” It’s a compelling promise, but “no problem too…
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You Don’t Have to Be a Star, Baby
“You don’t have to be a star, baby, to be in my show.” Did I just date myself? Thanks, Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis, Jr. – you’re making me look a little ancient here! In all earnestness, friends, it has…
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Auld Lang Shine
In August of 2008, Eileen, Josh, and I were able to attend the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo, on the Esplanade of Edinburgh Castle. Toward the end of that amazing performance by the British Armed Forces and other international military bands,…
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Come, Thou Unexpected Jesus
Yes, I’m adjusting a hymn title, but I’m adjusting it for good reason. The Son of God has come to us in the most unexpected way! I know it’s supposed to be the season of Lent, but I’m still in awe of…
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Gray Hairs and Giggles
Today I’ll take you way back in your Bible to Genesis 5. We find there a long genealogy, and from it we learn several things about life before the Flood. Namely, people lived a long, long time! We also learn…
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Big (Mac) Joy
Yesterday I witnessed something that I never thought I’d see in our mild-mannered Paducah. Two ladies, driving two separate cars in the drive-through lane, busted out in a version of road rage rarely seen in these parts. The woman in…
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The Ice God
The celebrated meteorologist Jim Cantore may not show up in Paducah this time like he did before the crippling storm in 2009, but the ice is on its way. Even as I write, it’s headed in our direction. The question…
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Wild and Sweet
“Peace on earth, good will toward men.” At the end of a particularly trying year, I share with you some particularly hopeful words. Those seven words were penned in 1863 by the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in Christmas Bells. The poem…
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Of Luke and Linus
Etched in our memory ever since, Charlie Brown set the stage in 1965: “I think there must be something wrong with me, Linus. Christmas is coming, but I’m not happy. I don’t feel the way I’m supposed to feel.” You…
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