When a centurion sent the Jewish elders to ask Christ Jesus to heal his beloved servant, he recognized a fundamental fact about the relationship of power to the individual.
It doesn't matter what season of the year it is, but every time I read the beautiful Christmas story in Matthew, I am filled with gratitude for that humble, godly man—that unsung hero of history—quiet, gentle Joseph.
In the delightful Walt Disney movie Mary Poppins, Mary, a pert English nanny, pulls an unusual measuring tape from her carpetbag and with the aid of the children measures herself from head to toe.
In the last few years the media covered a case that has raised profound questions: a doctor had provided poison so a patient suffering from an incurable disease could kill herself.
