Month: August 2015

  • HOLY COMMUNION

    The other day I posted a little (cynical) quip about the options some churches are offering at communion.   I think some might have been offended either by my quip, or the comments that came afterward.  Most of these were simply people telling stories of what they had seen offered or done.  I wanted to clarify…

  • TWELVE IDEAS ON MAKING MARRIAGE A LITTLE HAPPIER!

    By Randy Nabors, (the imperfect husband) 1.      Sometime in the relationship you have to choose to love the person they are, and accept the idea that they don’t have to be (maybe will never be, maybe should never be) the person you want them to become. 2.     Sometime in the relationship you should finally want…

  • THE VALUE OF MEN, PART 2

       Recently I read an article from the Atlantic Monthly (Why So Many Black Men Are Dying In America by Jeffry Goldberg) in which it cited that 260,000 African American men were murdered between 1980 and 2013.  I have also heard that the number of homicides annually is about 15,000 in America.  These are frightening…

  • THE VALUE OF MEN, PART 1.

    There are two dynamics of current American life that are on my mind as I write these articles.  One is the too often tragic confrontation between African Americans and police officers, which I will write about first, and the other is the mass killing of African American young men.  These two experiences are related in…