Abraham's Journey
By Charlie Johnston Thank you for all your prayers. Keep it going. Gabriel will be okay. He was at a neighbor’s house, playing. The neighbor has five kids. One of them is a special needs child. For some unfathomable reason, the family had a loaded rifle sitting unattended on a table. Gabriel was playing a […]
Read More All Will be Well and All Manner of Things Will be WellBy Charlie Johnston Ocala, Florida – The late Chicago Mayor, Richard J. Daley, had a saying I loved. “Good government is good politics and good politics is good government.” It was a memorable Chicago way of saying take care of the little things and the big things will take care of themselves. The late mayor […]
Read More Fiery Trials(There will be time enough to consider the challenges and opportunities before us as the New Year approaches. For now, it is time for God, family, and tradition. When I was a kid, Mom and Dad would wake us up around midnight, then we would sit on the floor around the tree and Dad would […]
Read More Joseph’s WayBy Charlie Johnston Thomasville, Georgia – Our own Steve Baker formulated one of the more penetrating questions to a piece I wrote a few days ago that I decided to answer his question in the form of another column. First, it would be good for you to look at the column in question (or, at […]
Read More Unifying the Spiritual and the MaterialBy Charlie Johnston Many have commented that my piece going into the New Year was very dark. I understand how it might seem that way, but it actually was not. Every great crisis involving some sort of great dysfunction has roughly four stages: revelation, confrontation, conflict and resolution. Ever since I started writing publicly about […]
Read More The Hope of the New Year
A Sign of Hope 