by sworel | Mar 8, 2026 | 2026, Musings
This morning, I read an article that was printed in the Wall Street Journal. I am not sure of the date of the incident, but I found it to be extraordinarily upsetting. It has to do with an ongoing two-month exchange between a 36-year-old Florida man named Joel Gavalas...
by sworel | Mar 1, 2026 | 2026, Musings
In one of John Maxwell’s books on leadership, there is a good story about one of the men at the Alamo. As you may remember, in 1835 a group of very committed Texas patriots made a stand against the Mexican army at a small mission-turned fort in San Antonio. (When I...
by sworel | Feb 22, 2026 | 2026, Musings
Like you, I really enjoy learning new things. This morning, I learned the definition of the term “murmuration.” My vocabulary got expanded as I looked at a video of some starlings racing across the fields in the Midwest. You may have seen how they group together by...
by sworel | Feb 15, 2026 | 2026, Musings
The Scottish theologian William Barclay, once wrote, “A gloomy Christian is a contradiction in terms. And nothing in all of religious history has done Christianity more harm than its connection with black clothes and long faces.” A gloomy Christian allows their...
by sworel | Feb 8, 2026 | 2026, Musings
Years ago, some handmade cardboard signs began to pop up around the train station in San Juan Capistrano. They very simply said, “Stephen, please call your mom.” No one knew who Stephen was, none of us had any idea about his age or the circumstances that estranged him...
by sworel | Jan 25, 2026 | 2026, Musings
I really love the movie, Chariots of Fire. Of course I admire the character of Eric Liddell. Not only did he refuse to violate his principles at the Olympics and run on the sabbath, but ultimately, he died serving as a missionary in China. But the character of Harold...
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