God’s Crossword Puzzle

Do you do crossword puzzles? I have to confess that I always seem to get stuck on some obscure reference to science, history or music that I’ve never heard of. And without those words, the whole puzzle remains a mystery. And that’s the way it was with the...

Yellow Ribbons

The song, Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree, is about a man released from prison who wasn’t sure whether the woman he loved would accept him back, or reject him. He wrote and asked her forgiveness and requested that, if she could forgive him, she tie a...

Mystery Religions

In the first century, the Greek mystery religions were the number one competition for Christianity. They were the ancient equivalents to secret societies in more recent centuries. You were initiated into a mystery religion without knowing very much, and then you were...