Bill Teague’s lpc e-pistle

I’m feeling grumpy this morning.  I read the President’s Thanksgiving Day Proclamation, and I don’t like it at all.  I will tell you why I don’t like it in a minute.  First, let me tell you that I always read the President’s Thanksgiving Day Proclamation and I like some better than others. Over the years some have been, well, turkeys while others have soared like an eagle. If you’re interested, you may read every single one of them here. Let me say, too, that among those turkey and eagle proclamations have been both Democrat and Republican authors.

Pity the poor White House writer who has to compose these things. Continue Reading »

Several weeks ago I shared the wonderful story of Kamate Takoudjou, the seven-year old boy from the Cameroon in West Africa who had lost sight in one eye due to an injury to his cornea and subsequent scar tissue that was causing the blindness.

You may remember how God brought together friends known and unknown, brothers and sisters in Christ, to allow Kamate to undergo the complicated transplant surgery he needed. From the Cameroon to Kenya, from the Wills Eye Institute in Philadelphia to Langhorne Presbyterian Church, God was at work for his good purposes.

We thank God for the faithfulness of parents and friends, physicians and church members, medical technology and a mission budget, all of which made Kamate’s surgery possible.  Mostly, though, we thank God for his amazing grace. Continue Reading »

Last night’s Conan O’Brien television program featured an on-stage wedding presided over by the host himself. Of course, it is not the first time vows have been said on late night television. Some of us are old enough to remember Tiny Tim and Miss Vicki tying the knot on Johnny Carson’s Tonight show back in 1969, though unlike Conan, Carson did not officiate.

The fact that the two people married last night were both men may have garnered some extra headlines and publicity for Conan. Continue Reading »