The Value of a Good Name

In his book, I Almost Missed the Sunset, Bill Gaither writes:

Gloria and I had been married a couple of years. We were teaching school in Alexandria, Indiana, ...

Being Honest Isn't Easy

I was watching an interview show on television some years ago in which a beautiful, dignified British lady in her eighties appeared as though she had ...

Keeping a Promise

I think of the father of one of my closest friends. My friend was reminiscing after his father's death and told me of an experience from much earlier ...

Honesty: Always the Best Policy?

Honesty is not always the best policy. Truth must be married to love; honesty must be intertwined with kindness.

Where Honesty Begins

Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.

What the World Really Needs

When Dietrich Bonhoeffer was almost hearing the stomping of the Gestapo boots to take him away and execute him, he wondered on paper what kind of people ...

Honesty Is the Best Policy

Coming home from work, a woman stopped at the corner deli to buy a chicken for supper. The butcher reached into a barrel, grabbed the last chicken he ...

The Comfort of Truth-Telling

Telling the truth makes life simpler and more comfortable. If you don't, you have to struggle to keep your stories straight, trying to remember what-all ...

Rewards for Honesty

My son Jason's successes have come mainly in baseball, the most notable of which occurred in a single moment last summer. In the last three years, I doubt ...

Confession Dispells Lies

For him who confesses, shams are over, and realities have begun.