Treasured Friends, With the Presidential election now decided, we are likely to hear over the coming weeks and months about the new administration’s “mandate.”  Our system of government affords each presidential administration a certain degree of latitude – a “mandate” – to cast a vision for the nation’s near-term direction and even to institute certain…

Treasured Friends, On All Hallow’s Eve (Halloween) in 1517, when an Augustinian monk named Martin Luther posted his “95 Theses” on the door of the local castle in Wittenberg, Germany, he merely hoped for the opportunity to engage in a debate.  What he could not have fathomed was the far reaching revolution that would ensue…

Treasured Friends, It is notable both in Scripture and in life how often calamity, crisis, and uncertainty are the result of our unwillingness to accept limits and boundaries. Adam and Eve were handed all the lush beauty and bounty of Eden, but immediately sought to have the one part of it they were told was…