Requiescat in Pace, Praeceptor Meam
Rushing down the highway today, anxious that I would be late to his funeral, it suddenly hit me that, actually, I probably ought to be late. Just a couple of minutes. Sliding into a back pew, gasping for breath, and fumbling in my purse for a pen. Dr. Hazlewood would have expected it from me. […]
Tags: challenges, Education, eulogy, grace, respect, True Stories
Raise the Lamp, the White and Blue …
My Alma Mater, Lambuth University, will cease to exist at the close of business on June 30. Lambuth has educated young people for 168 years. She withstood the Great Depression, a couple of recessions, and two World Wars. But she could not withstand the financial mismanagement and the collapsing economy of the last dozen years. […]
Tags: eulogy, Lambuth Universtiy, True Stories
Thank You, Friend
For several years, I’ve had a wonderful online friend named Mike. I knew him better by his screen-name, Metochoi, under which he moderated a Yahoo Group called Gothard_Discussion. I found the group shortly after my divorce, and several years after leaving the parachurch organization called The Institute in Basic Life Principles (IBLP) and its homeschool […]
Tags: ATIA, Christianity, death, eulogy, faith, friends, good works, grace, IBLP, kindness, logic, online relationships, Religion, True Stories, truth
The World Has Lost a Great Man Today
I am deeply saddened to learn that Dr. Adrian Rogers, Pastor Emeritus of Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis, Tennessee, has left this world, but I rejoice to know that he is in the presence of the Lord and Saviour whom he loved so dearly. When I was a young child, we attended Bellevue Baptist Church — that […]
Tags: Christianity, eulogy, Religion, True Stories
Death of a Superhero
Ed McAteer died yesterday. When I heard the news, my first reaction was “The king is dead. Long live the king.” And I continue to feel that way about Ed’s passing. This world and the next will never be the same now that Ed’s in God’s presence and not ours. He and I were not close […]
Tags: Christianity, Ed McAteer, eulogy, Politics, Religion, respect, True Stories
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