Television ads for investment firms and insurance companies are scary. Accidents jump out of closets, poor planning slithers under our sheets, and retirement is clomping up the basement steps to get us. Explicit images of a youthful retiree surfing with his grandson at the beach house, graduation ceremonies...

If the bodies of the approximately three million white-tail deer harvested annually in America were to be laid end to end, the column would stretch from New York to San Francisco. If we added in the elk, antelope, moose, mule-deer and black-tail deer, we would be well on our way to a complete round trip....

It’s probably not right for a pastor to watch MTV. Especially when it shows people getting beat up in an eight sided ring by professional cage fighters. So I’m confessing that my favorite show is an MTV reality series called Bully Beat Down. The premise of the show goes like this: guys who have...