by Mike Massar | Jun 27, 2017 | Opinion
Parents play different roles at times in most families. Some call it “good cop, bad cop,” which I suppose is just another way of describing “grace and justice.” In my family, the roles were pretty well prescribed. My mother was nearly always...
by Mike Massar | Dec 23, 2016 | Opinion
It’s funny that they have come to be known as the wise men. In the biblical accounts, they were referred to as “magi,” and for the Jewish audience of the first century this was not, by any stretch of the imagination, to be considered as...
by Mike Massar | Sep 14, 2015 | Opinion
I spent a day recently with Baptist missionary Jenny Hodge at the Together For Hope ministries in Lake Providence, Louisiana, one of the poorest places in the U.S. It was an eye-opening experience, which began as I drove up. There was a man working in the mission...
by Mike Massar | Apr 14, 2014 | Opinion
At a dinner for Nobel Prize winners, President John F. Kennedy gave a most clever and astute introduction. He said to that distinguished crowd, “I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the...
by Mike Massar | Feb 11, 2014 | Opinion
I attended the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts several years ago, and the professor of my screenplay-writing class took pains to warn me about it ahead of time. Knowing that I was a minister attending the course to study the comparisons...
