The Sun is shining today and will rise tomorrow. For more years than we know the Sun has followed this same pattern.

There is no place quieter or more forlorn than the losing candidate’s headquarters the morning after election night.

It is a lot of years ago when part of ministry included cold calling. Over that period, I made over 15,000 cold calls on families.

One of my best-selling books over the years has been “Anatomy Of A Leader.”

During the course of the COVID-19 crisis, an ongoing, and very legitimate, national debate has continued about the wisdom of lockdowns.

My wife was looking for something to read and came across “If You Want to Walk on Water, You Have to Get Out of the Boat” by John Ortberg. I told her I enjoyed that book. To boost it even more I said John Ortberg is the favorite author of one of our sons.

Our hiking group planned a trip to Cosby last week, to explore the Sutton Ridge Overlook Trail. Nobody in our group had hiked this trail before.

There are signs that we are living in a world of emotionally charged, high anxiety. We are a glob of an emotionally entangled mess.

Phil Roe, U.S. Representative from Tennessee, wrote in an article distributed this week, “… for months Speaker (Nancy) Pelosi has refused to hold votes on bipartisan coronavirus relief legislation. Instead, she has repeatedly put forward partisan legislation that has no chance of becoming law.”

A newspaper comic strip pictured a little boy and his father coming out of a service station’s public restroom.

Earlier this year, the Trump administration launched an all-hands-on-deck initiative called Operation Warp Speed to defeat COVID-19.

I really hate to break this to all our young voters, but the current election cycle is not the most important one in our history. We are in no greater existential national crisis today than we were in the years immediately after the Declaration of Independence was signed. Or around 1812. Or …

Pastor Harley Swiggum wrote a Bible study series for Bethel Lutheran Church of Madison, Wisconsin. Its impact grew beyond that parish.

I have been noticing in print and electronic communications there is a huge disparity in who is complaining seemingly about everything in America and who is showing gratitude and appreciation for America and the people of America.

My dear friends, I do hope you are well and enjoying these first days leading into autumn with their cooler evening and early morning hours.

Barb, a checkout clerk at a supermarket I frequent, told me, “Be sure and come through my line next time. Don’t let those self-checkouts become a habit.”

Actor Chadwick Boseman recently died after a four-year battle with colon cancer. He was 43.

The U.S. Census is taking place, and as of now, Sevier County has one of the worst response rates in the state. While you may not believe your participation matters, I can tell you it does. It pays to be counted.

In 1984, I lived in the Socialist Republic of Romania, under the totalitarian regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu. I was 10 and in fifth grade. My daughter is 10 and in fifth grade this year, so this is an interesting memory for me.

There is a constant fight for who gets to tell stories of the past. It is a matter of perspective.