David Burchett

Take-offs on cloudy, nasty days always reveal the nervous flyers. As the plane thunders down the runway and rises into a soupy and overcast mix the...

My sons gave me a wonderful Christmas blessing, gift and challenge this year. I yield my space to my sons as I share their Christmas letter with...

No day of the year has generated more written material than Christmas. I thought I would collect a few thoughts from people with bigger brains than...

My nomination for the most obvious lyric ever written is awarded to the Beach Boys. In their tune “Little Saint Nick” the boys let us know this...

The song that I will remember Dan Fogelberg most for is his song written about his dad called “Leader of the Band”. Fogelberg's father was a...

The year was 1914 and soldiers were having to spend Christmas Eve night on the battlefields of France during World War I, the Great War, as it was...

As I listened to the classic carol "Away in a Manger" recently an important series of difficult questions came to mind. What noise, exactly, were...

We learn a dangerous theology from jolly old Saint Nick. Santa Clause is coming to town and you had better shape up or else!

When I was a kid the holidays politely waited their turn in line. Thanksgiving would take the baton from Halloween and then pass it along to...

I have a new business idea. When faith gets challenged or offended by a movie, book, television show or stupid celebrity quote I am going to sell...

Money is an uncomfortable topic for followers of Jesus. One anonymous writer noted that a lot of people are willing to give God the credit, but not...

Ronald Reagan had a favorite joke that he told so often that the joke itself became a joke with staff members. A CBS News piece related the story...

There is nothing more self-affirming than a good round of feeling stupid. Jeopardy usually fulfills that need for me. “I’ll take categories I...

I used to seriously resent the actual students at my high school who studied and messed up the curve for our slacker contingent. A similar...

Yesterday I posted an article about Homecoming at Baylor University. I wrote about an eternal homecoming someday with family and friends. Just...

It is Homecoming this weekend at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. Thousands of alumni will make their way to Central Texas for the event. It seems...

First of all, apologies to my tens of loyal readers who have been disappointed by the lack of current posts. I have been busy serving as the “pit...

Three summers ago Joni and I did not have to turn on the morning news shows for visual entertainment. Every morning as we got ready for the day we...