Month: December 2021

I just finished writing my column “A word from Bill Jones,” followed by proofreading of every last word and every last link in the last-ever issue – # 500 – of my Weekly Baptist Roundup e-newsletter. Every link but one, that is. I want to use this blog post to jot down a few reflections Read more . . .

(Scroll to the end for links to my previous 10 blog tributes to Joanna since her passing.) There is much in life that is a matter of perspective, much that is open to interpretation, subject to our personal experience and understanding. For instance, as much as many of us would like to enforce our religious Read more . . .

To my Weekly Baptist Roundup family, The Weekly Baptist Roundup issue of Saturday, December 18, 2021, will be issue no. 500. That number is hard for me to fathom, but it represents 10-1/2 years – except for a 10-month “hiatus” after Texas Baptists Committed ended operations in August 2017. In May 2018, I told Joanna that Read more . . .

(Scroll to the end for links to my previous 9 blog tributes to Joanna since her passing.) This time of year – Thanksgiving week and the days following – have had an extra-special meaning for our family through the years. This year, Travis’s birthday – November 25 – fell on Thanksgiving Day. He turned 36. Read more . . .