This day would have been my father’s seventy-seventh birthday. One year ago, he celebrated the day of his birth at our dining room table; now, he has been nine months gone. Much emptiness still remains where he once was. As far back as I can re

While doing some research related to the writer of the lyrics now know as the hymn “Amazing Grace,” I ran across another set of lyrics that are equally powerful but far less familiar. First off, a few little-known facts about “Amazi