When my mother was dying of cancer, one of my brothers and I decided to pay for twenty-four-hour nursing care in her home. What little insurance she had did not provide such coverage. We did not want her to die in a hospital, or, worse yet, in a...
In mulling over todays Scripture readings two themes came to my mind, (1) the role of women, and (2) what kind of a God God is. When you stand back and try to look at The Big Picture you recognize how often Scripture — God’s Word for us –...