
Why Do Golf Balls Have Dimples?
The United States Golf Association (USGA) regulates almost everything about golf balls – including their size, weight, and component parts – but not the number or pattern of dimples.
The United States Golf Association (USGA) regulates almost everything about golf balls – including their size, weight, and component parts – but not the number or pattern of dimples.
Is Doubt the Opposite of Faith? All too often, churches are assumed to be fortresses of unassailable certainty – places where spiritually mature people no longer have serious questions about God’s existence, the meaning of life, or what happens after we die.
In one of Jesus’ most familiar parables (Luke 15:11-32), the younger of two sons demands, “Father, give me my share of the estate.” It’s hard to overstate the edginess of this request. The Middle Eastern audience who first heard Jesus’ story must have been appalled. This Jewish boy has committed the ultimate sin.
Dr. Suzanne Degges-White, writing in Psychology Today, suggests that our most important relationships can be kept in good working order by the relational equivalents of duct tape and WD-40 can keep our most important relationships in good working order.
All of us make mistakes. With grace and grit, we can learn from our mistakes. And then there are those of us who actually earn from our mistakes. That brings us to Bette Nesmith Graham, an executive secretary for the Texas Bank and Trust in the mid-1950s.