Inkblots! You may not always be able to tell a book by its cover, but occasionally a cover can say as much as a book. The most recent edition of the venerable J. Gresham Machen’s Christian Faith in the Modern World (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.) bears a cover that comments significantly on […]

On Friday, January 31, 2003, Rev. Paul T. Murphy was installed as associate Pastor of West Sayville Reformed Bible Church (URCNA). Rev. Murphy, along with his wife, Julie, and their children Shannon, Joshua, Joel, Peter,Abigail will have their membership at West Sayville. The installation was nicely attended with representatives from several URCNA churches (it was […]

I met Shaul (sha-OOL) Mayer ben Yitzchak at Hebrew School. We were inseparable. Jewish kids who attended public school (like us) were sent to Hebrew School in the afternoons in the hope that they would learn enough Hebrew to avoid humiliating dad at the Bar Mitzvah. Hebrew School was Monday through Thursday from 3:45 to […]

  I stopped reading the daily newspaper years ago. The New York Times was too big; my urbanity would vanish as I clumsily crumpled on to the next page. The Daily News and New York Post were easier on the hands , but harder to handle in others ways. The Post became a local Enquirer, […]