When I was courting Abigail long distance, I would meet her train at Union Station and we would eat there. After a few visits, we ventured into nearby Chinatown, as it was called. After a dinner filled with the intensity of new-found lovers getting to know each other, we opened our fortune cookies. It was […]
“Is it okay to ask You for specific guidance?” Of course. You should feel free to ask Me for assistance of any kind. However, you must have faith. I cannot (will not) help you if you do not have faith. As time went on, I found I was praying but not really listening. I was […]
It seems that events of the Civil War transformed Lincoln’s religious side, which had previously been sufficiently skeptical that, as a candidate, he had to defend himself against the charge of being a “scoffer.” Lincoln seemed, according to historian Shelby Foote, “not to be a praying man and he had never joined a church.” The […]
