Mom went home Monday. We buried her beside my dad in a beautiful, hilly West Virginia cemetery just a couple of miles from the house where she was born more than 86 years ago. It was a small funeral; virtually all the family and friends she still remembered vividly from her youth were long dead. Not to worry, her beloved oldest granddaughter said. “I’ll bet there’s a huge party ...
Roy Exum: AIDS Isn’t Important?
by Roy Exum
I know a man who is an assistant pastor in one of America’s largest churches. He and his lovely wife have ministered to many thousands so imagine the recoil that came one day when their only child, their handsome son, came home to say he had the AIDS virus. This has been 10 or 15 years ago, before we had the new drugs and knew what we do today. This was also when families would ostracize the infected ...
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