Mama says...

I used to think that the Christmas season was about seeking out special gifts for the people closest to me

It was way too early for anybody who really knows me to be blowing up my phone. When I woke

The purpose of the journey was clear for me—to travel to Israel and walk where Jesus walked. Of secondary importance

There he was, sitting underneath the partial shade of whatever kind of tree could grow in the desert sands of

For better, for worse. I doubt that many couples walk down the aisle thinking to themselves that “things only get

My almost eighty-nine year old mother is napping in her white leather rocking chair with her Bible left open on

There’s a smell to it that’s hard to describe: abject poverty. It’s not a putrid or unbearable smell as one

Death has a way of making things final. It’s not the kind of thing that waits for us to put

It was almost five years ago, nearing my own birthday, when I was captured on film stating a now semi-famous

Tuning in a little late last evening to the 2015 Oscar Awards, I was somewhat surprised to hear that Lady

One of my earliest childhood memories is of sitting on the living room floor in front of a black and

I remember the flight home from my very first trip to China like it was yesterday. Not because there was

I’m sitting here listening as CNN Live reports on the unfortunate suicide of Robin Williams—a comedian and actor I absolutely

Of all the plug-ins and software tools we use to create music these days, none has been more controversial than

“Where did we go wrong?” seems to be the proverbial question that record company executives are begging in this day