
My Rashionale — Polishing our observation skills provides opportunity to help
My friend needed me. I knew it with everything in me, but she pushed me away. She avoided my calls

Sometimes well-oiled machines are taken for granted
Nearly 20 years ago in January 2001, an earthquake registering 7.6 on the Richter scale devastated El Salvador’s city of

My Rashionale — Four ways to make a difference as we await Nov. 3
We are a little more than six weeks out, and we all know the intensity of the political rhetoric will

Celebrate grandparents every day and a little extra Sept. 13
Grandparents, we celebrate you this month, especially the tremendous role you play in the lives of your grandchildren. And for

My Rashionale — Are Nigerian Christians right? Are we looking the other way?
All week I planned to write about Grandparents Day — for the grandkids out there, it’s Sept. 13 — but

My Rashionale — Will we ever see Walter Cronkite-style news reporting again?
Our friend and your friend Joe McKeever (pastor, author, cartoonist) joked in a recent Facebook post about a headline from

My Rashionale — Reporting, reviewing stats tedious but important for evaluation
Gov. Kay Ivey’s plea for Alabamians to fill out the 2020 census forms (see page 13) has me thinking about

Who’s on your school prayer list? How’s your church reaching out?
School administrators, teachers, parents, students and governmental officials on all levels continue struggling to find common ground regarding how school