"Uncle" Lawrence owned a farm, and when I was a boy, my brother and I would visit this magical place. It was the first time I'd seen how chickens were raised and eggs gathered and cows milked. But what fascinated me most was when I saw the mule being yoked...
Opposite Day was always a fun game to play when I was a kid. We would play "Opposite Day" and laugh out loud as our friends misunderstood what we were trying to tell them. But sometimes, we humans have a serious problem understanding one another because we have the...
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The act of communication is an amazingly difficult task, because we humans communicate on so many levels: Verbal (obviously), Visual (both in writing and gestures, facial expressions), Auditory, and Sensory. We communicate, intentionally and unintentionally along all these spectrums all the time. And guess what, we still struggle with...
I laughed out loud when a comedian started talking about words that seem to contradict each other. Phrases like "Jumbo Shrimp" and "Military Intelligence" and "Government Efficiency." They just seem to cancel each other out! On a more serious note, St. Anthony the Great, the desert dweller, once said: "A...
We were talking in Bible study recently about "First Principles." It seems this is something we so rarely consider, but if we miss fundamental truths, we always end up in places we never intended to go. For instance, if you don't build your life on the fundamental truth that when...
Marketing experts expect U.S. companies to spend over 200 BILLION dollars on advertising and marketing this year. While TV advertising is still number one in marketing dollars, online ads are gaining ground, with the mobile ads starting to appear on the phone screens of Americans gaining the most ground. And do...
Here's a link to last night's Open Line Sunday Faith Encouraged LIVE program on Pentecostalism. I was joined by my good friend and fellow AFR podcaster, Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick. Fr. Andrew told us about his upcoming revised and expanded book "Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy" coming out this Fall. Click here: http://www.ancientfaith.com/podcasts/faithencouragedlive/pentecostalism If...
"Now THAT's a real American!" The conversation centered, as all conversations seem to during an election year, on a particular political idea. The enthusiastic judge of what a "true American" really is was thrilled that the talking head on some 24 hour news station agreed with his idea in...
You've met them before. They are the ones who aren't the center of attention, but they recognize who should be the center of attention and introduce those folks to everyone else. These people seem to have the knack of recognizing who should lead, who should speak, and who should...
