Ed Spivey Jr. As our nation prepares for war against—depending on the mood of the president—al Qaeda, Iraq, or unnecessarily big words (su ...

Ed Spivey Jr. Why can't really scary diseases have really scary and obvious symptoms? It's finally ...

Ed Spivey Jr. Some readers have complained that this column has become too personal, too focused on my being a great father, an award-winn ...

Ed Spivey Jr. When Sojourners' CultureWatch editor asked me to write about my "favorite things," I gave a quick "Sure! ...

Ed Spivey Jr. The wise man built his house upon the rock. The foolish man built his house upon the sand. Then the foolish man sold his ho ...

Ed Spivey Jr. Those of you in the hinterlands—when you’re not taking care of your hinter—are probably wondering what life is like now in W ...

Ed Spivey Jr. It's not a matter of who's wrong or right, unless Santa somehow gets involved. Our edi ...

Ed Spivey Jr. Why shouldn't kids be allowed to have their fun, for gosh sakes? Our yearly trips to see Gr ...

Ed Spivey Jr. It's no surprise that humans are smarter than roundworms. Well, most humans, anyway. Congra ...

Ed Spivey Jr. I was either having a major cardiac event or was standing in a pool of water being repeatedly struck by lightning. ...

Ed Spivey Jr. At press time our nation hung in the balance. At press time our nation hung in the balance. Even ...

Ed Spivey Jr. Because our oldest daughter absolutely refuses to join the Merchant Marines after high school, she made me drive through New ...

Ed Spivey Jr. In just a few short months you'll wake up on a crisp Tuesday after the first Monday in November and do your part to dra ...

Ed Spivey Jr. There comes a time in every man’s life when he has to begin a sentence with a really bad cliche. This is one of those times. ...

Ed Spivey Jr. I am personally against dogs having credit cards. This is the second issue of the New Millennium ...

Ed Spivey Jr. The breakfast table was covered with birthday cards decoratively labeled "50," which meant somebody in our home ha ...

Ed Spivey Jr. funny business And lo (or, as translated in the Living Bible , "yo!"), an angel of ...

Ed Spivey Jr. Funny business. I should have been happy when my daughter brought up the subject. I had been dre ...

Ed Spivey Jr. Congratulations to Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic for winning the United Nations’ prestigious First War Criminal Still ...

Ed Spivey Jr. "What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or, not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is." Tough wo ...

Ed Spivey Jr. Or did you think Y2K was another Calvin Klein perfume, the kind promoted by pouty models who look like all they want from li ...

Ed Spivey Jr. The global economy is in shambles, the presidency is in crisis, and Americans are struggling under the weight of a broken he ...

Ed Spivey Jr. Film stardom is an elusive dream for most, including even yours truly, whom many have credited with talents well-suited for ...

Ed Spivey Jr. Morning in Washington, D.C. Morning in Washington, D.C. A time of high energy and even higher ex ...

Ed Spivey Jr. Jury duty is one of those responsibilities of citizenship that reminds us that the American justice system is the best in th ...

Ed Spivey Jr. Our cover feature points out the importance of rituals that young men need to prepare them for responsible adulthood, not in ...

Ed Spivey Jr. It's February and so far you haven't kept a single New Year's resolution, have you? Not even the one about se ...

Ed Spivey Jr. Whew! I was afraid it was hereditary, since my grandfather on my mother’s side had a cousin who looked like a pool cue. ...

Ed Spivey Jr. Responding to growing pressure from the media, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NAFTA) has finally ...

Ed Spivey Jr. Helllloooooooooo!" That’s what I shouted over the Grand Canyon when we first pulled up. You have to do that. It ...

Ed Spivey Jr. 'Hrumphs Les French By Ed Spivey 'Hrumphs Les French By Ed Spivey ...

Ed Spivey Jr. This issue of Sojourners is sponsored by the good folks at Procter & Gamble, makers of a respected line of consu ...

Ed Spivey Jr. I saw God the other day at the supermarket. I saw God the other day at the supermarket. I wa ...

Ed Spivey Jr. I confess that on Election Day this past November I didn't vote my conscience or my pocketbook. ...

Ed Spivey Jr. American democracy is the envy of the world. And millions of us will wake up on election day and realize just how lu ...

Ed Spivey Jr. Don’t try this. Don’t try this. I’m driving along the streets of Washin ...

Ed Spivey Jr. As the primary season mercifully draws to a close, our crack H'rumphs election team has determined that, with most of ...

Ed Spivey Jr. After finally digging out from the 27 inches of snow that fell on the nation's capital-a city founded on a simple demo ...

Ed Spivey Jr. Oops. Actually our 25th anniversary issue is coming up later this fall. I just forgot. I've been forgetting a lot latel ...

Ed Spivey Jr. By now you're probably pretty tired of reading about money and politics, and all the other serious stuff we've pa ...

Ed Spivey Jr. EDITORS' NOTE: The above headline may not necessarily relate to the following article. Darn those French. ...

Ed Spivey Jr. "Clothe yourselves with humility toward one another." -1 PETER 5:5 (But then, Peter never won First Place at an ...

Ed Spivey Jr. Recently, some spots on my face were diagnosed not as the distinctive markings of a rare intellect-which I had assumed them ...

Ed Spivey Jr. Recently, some spots on my face were diagnosed not as the distinctive markings of a rare intellect-which I had assumed them ...

Ed Spivey Jr. Anew day has dawned in our country. Unfortunately, that day is some time in the 1950s. The Republicans are back and have ab ...

Ed Spivey Jr. It started with a silence, not a noise. The kind of silence that makes a parent sit bolt upright in his bed; an unnatural aw ...

Ed Spivey Jr. People don’t always say what they mean (I meant to say that). And this past summer brought several examples of the daily &qu ...

Ed Spivey Jr. We recently changed over to a different health insurance company here at Sojourners. The new company is less expensive than ...

Ed Spivey Jr. Actually, it was more like "The Day the White People Came" when Bill Clinton and his entourage of young Caucasians ...

Ed Spivey Jr. This issue of Sojourners marks a significant breakthrough in paper technology. This issue of S ...