In the Name... There was once a barber who became a born-again Christian and couldn’t wait to share his new-found faith. So, one Monday,...

In the Name... One Saturday, three men were walking along a beach and stumbled across an old lamp in the sand. They all rubbed it and...

Among the fables of Aesop is one entitled “The Hunter and the Woodsman.” A hunter was out following the tracks of a lion. He asked a...

PENTECOST 12, August 20th, 2023 In the Name... There's a scene I recall from one of the Frankenstein movies made in the 1970's. In this...

In the Name... A busy minister began his sermon one week by apologizing that he had not had time to prepare a written text. "I shall...

A Sunday School teacher asked her class if any of them could define "prayer.” One little boy raised his hand and said, "Prayer is when...

In the Name... A fiery preacher was once banging his pulpit and regaling his flock on the torments of Hell including weeping and gnashing...

In the Name... A man went to a farm stand, and, to make sure he was getting quality produce he asked, “Excuse me, I’m buying these for my...

In the Name... The story is told of a fiery preacher who stormed into a saloon and bellowed "Everyone who wants to go to heaven stand...

In the Name... "Good morning, Mr Phelps." A lot of us may remember that as a tagline of the TV series "Mission: Impossible." The line...

In the Name… A friend of mine had a church up in Washington State and one year his choir director found an anthem to use on Pentecost. ...

In the Name... The magnificent cathedral of Milan has three great doorways facing the piazza. Over the one on the left is an inscription...

In the Name... There is a saying that translators are traitors. This is because language is always subject to cultural idiosyncrasies. ...

In the Name... A group of hikers were being led through the Montana wilderness by a guide. On the third day, the hikers noticed that the...

In the Name... A minister was teaching a Sunday School lesson and he told the kids that, as the pastor, he was like a shepherd and the...

In the Name... A young man volunteered to entertain patients in a local rehab facility and took his portable keyboard. He told some...

In the Name... A Sunday School teacher was telling her students the story of Jesus and, as she told how Jesus was condemned and nailed...

Just twenty years after the event we remember today, a riot broke out in Ephesus, the fourth largest city of the Roman Empire. Ephesus...

In the Name... A rabbi once told me the reason that it took ten plagues to convince Pharaoh to let the Hebrews go. He was in De-Nile. In...

In the Name… Sometimes, you just can’t invent this stuff. A letter from the Department of Social Services, Greenville, South Carolina,...