The High Calling

May 12, 2009

With or Without

I hear about how poorly the middle class is doing. I hear about how my home has declined in value. I hear about my 401K plummeting. But rarely do I hear about what I do have.

Thanksgiving: Pennies and a Big Blue Sky

by L.L. Barkat

L.L. here. Thinking about Thanksgiving. Remembering a book I just had to read. Because my cousin-in-law (is there such a thing?) did the cover illustration. The book is about a young woman who braves prairie life to secure government-offered land. I won’t tell you whether she wins or loses the fields, but I will l tell you: she sure faced hard times....

Why No Saint Puah?

by George Cladis

The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah, "When you act as midwives to the Hebrew women, and set them on the birthstool, if it is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, she shall live." But the midwives feared God; they did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but they let the boys live....