By Danny Minton I stumbled across a conversation this week where people were discussing when they put up their Christmas trees. It may sound like a strange question almost one hundred days from Christmas, with Halloween and Thanksgiving holidays still on the horizon, but it was a serious back-and-forth between a few dozen people. I was surprised by how many

By Danny Minton I recently heard the story of a man named Hody Buford Childress. After hearing it, I had to check into his life a little more. Chances are most of those who read this have never heard of him. It’s likely that he would have just as soon kept it that way, but after he passed away on

By Danny Minton It was Aug. 28, 1963, when Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., and gave his now-famous “I Have a Dream” speech. Here are a few excerpts expressing thoughts he was trying to convey to all Americans. “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise

By Danny Minton One of my favorite things growing up was when we would go to downtown Dallas and look at the Christmas displays in the department store windows. The windows would be sprinkled with fake snow, and through the flakes you could view animated characters around a tree, in a sled, or helping Santa. They were windows into another

By Danny Minton Many of you may remember a comedian, actor, and singer who was popular in Vaudeville in the 1920s, radio broadcasts in the 1930s and 1940s, and in movies and TV in the 1950s and 1960s, with his own TV show from 1954-56. His name was Jimmy Durante, known for his gravelly voice and, as he called it,

By Danny Minton It was a beautiful Sunday morning with a crystal-clear sky, the birds singing joyfully in the trees, children playing, and the warmth of the sun glistening off the morning dew. As he stepped through the Garden Gate, the first thing he did was glance up the hill a few hundred yards to his right. His eyes and

By Danny Minton On the shelves of my home office, I have at my disposal Bibles of every shape, size, and translation. They include: the King James Version, the American Standard and the New American Standard, Revised Standard Version, English Standard Version, Archeological New International Study Bible, New International Bible, New International Study Bible, New International Women’s Study Bible, Phillips

By Danny Minton It arrived in the mail somewhere around 1992 or ’93, and my world would never be the same. But I’m getting ahead of myself, so let’s start at the beginning.  My first introduction to the computer world began in the early 1970s at a friend’s house, where he played a game called “Pong” on his TV. Magnavox

By Danny Minton The world today is full of people criticizing others; what they believe, how they look, what they say, their religion, their political views, their lifestyle, and just about any choice they make with which they disagree. Social media provides an easy platform to express a person’s opinions about others, often anonymously or under a pseudonym. People spend