Stan’s Corner, Sunday, July 24
Last Thursday, Judie and I saw the musical “Show Boat” at the Goodspeed Opera House. It was originally done on Broadway in 1927. Yes, you heard me, eighty four years […]
Last Thursday, Judie and I saw the musical “Show Boat” at the Goodspeed Opera House. It was originally done on Broadway in 1927. Yes, you heard me, eighty four years […]
Yesterday, I was coming home from Stop and Shop (the Old Shaws) down Franklin St. when I passed by Janet Baldwin’s home. You see, Janet is a shut-in now even […]
For years, I have been taking a religious magazine called The Christian Century which often gives me a knew way to look at something. In the current issue, there is a […]
Judie and I were sitting at a restaurant overlooking a sailboat on Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island and it made me think of this wonderful poem: “Sea-Fever” I must go […]
Philip Yancey has an interesting insight into Jesus: “The quality of restraint in Jesus—one could almost call it a divine shyness—took me by surprise….I had expected from him the same […]
There are times when this scripture speaks to my puzzling human condition and I find comfort in knowing that the author has experienced some of life’s frustrations as I have: […]
Just to note, today is my oldest son’s 50th Birthday–Happy Birthday, Chris, enjoy London for the week! Now, back to Connecticut, the closing words by the new pastor at South […]
Catherine Neptin-Rieder recently put this on facebook: “It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; […]
— In 1962, I found this poem in a Junior Hi Sunday School book: “I asked God for strength, that I might achieve, I was made weak, that I might […]
Muhammad said “None of you has faith until you love for your neighbor what you love for yourself.” And a recent Muslim commentator added, “Love of the neighbor is an […]