This past Saturday, the ‘teaching committee’ of my church got together to plan future direction. Having recently changed teaching days from Sunday to Wednesday, we needed to think about cirriculum and other things. Having decided that we are going to go through the Wild at Heart book and workbook this fall, the topic changed dramatically.

I’m teaching an Old Testament Survey class through the end of August and I decided to include a topic that I considered a bit risky. As you can guess from the title, it was a look at the OT Apocrypha. Just for clarity, I mean the books and material commonly found in Catholic Bibles, not

Contrary to popular belief, leadership is not evil. Without someone saying, “I’ll make sure this gets done,” nothing gets done. All of us look to someone to coordinate or plan or even motivate. As long as you don’t abdicate your own responsibility to lead your own life, this is pretty healthy. I went looking for