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Headstone in San Marcos City Cemetery, San Marcos, Texas * For the past few years, my parents, as they age, have made increasingly robust efforts to—how shall I put this delicately?—get rid of their junk.  I must immediately qualify that statement in two important ways.  First, I am grateful that they are running it all by their children; we get first dibs.  Second, much of it is decidedly not junk: Granddaddy’s (and now Dad’s) 1960 Chevy Impala, his antique pitch pipe, the V

Bill and Becky Stewart The Center for Christian Studies announces the establishment of the Bill and Becky Stewart Fellowship.  In their...

Monday night is National Date Night.  Friday and Saturday can be, too, but from January 27 through March 10, the Center for Christian Studies (CCS) has declared it: Monday night is National Date Night.  If someone has made today, January 9, National Balloon Ascension Day, National Law Enforcement Appreciation Day, National Apricot Day, and National Static Electricity Day—I’m not making this up —then we can assert 7 weeks of Monday nights as National Date Nights. But why?  To