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“Jesus said to him in reply, ‘What do you want me to do for you?’” Lord, what do I want you to do for me?  Well, I’m glad  you asked.  I want to have more good friends.  I want to have more money.  I want to lose weight.  I want to be better looking.  I

“. . . and he went away sad, for he had many possessions.” As you know, the magazine business has struggled in recent years, with many weeklies going monthly, many print editions going to digital only, and many publications going out of business entirely.  Newspapers are suffering a similar fate.  It wasn’t that long ago

As many of you know, one of the most popular category of books is “Biography” The evidence for this is the amount of shelf space devoted to them – whether that be in a bookstore or in a public library – shelf after shelf after shelf filled with stories about the lives of real people.

Bumper-stickers or short written statements on passenger cars especially taxis and privately owned public transports are the order of the day in the third world, especially my country Ghana. Even some houses and door post have them displayed. Some of the words or statements are words of exhortation or thought provoking statements while others are

“They had been discussing among themselves on the way who was the greatest.” Those of us of a certain age remember a time when Muhammad Ali was probably the most famous person in the world.  Back then, you could show his picture to people in virtually any country on earth, in towns large and small,