tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37269572024-03-13T05:06:26.376-05:00Haynes columnMike Haynes is a columnist for the Faith section of the Amarillo Globe-News. His column appears every other Sunday. (E-mail him at haynescolumn@gmail.com.)Mike Hayneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03593310176618712397noreply@blogger.comBlogger425125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3726957.post-2340074134548987772024-03-10T16:06:00.002-05:002024-03-10T16:06:51.551-05:00 March 10, 2024, column from the Amarillo Globe-News:Scottish woman remembered with much respectBy Mike Haynes
A
fierce battle in Scotland in 1746 sometimes is called “the Scottish Alamo”
because of the overwhelming victory of British Redcoats against an
under-equipped band of tartan-wearing Mike Hayneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03593310176618712397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3726957.post-39947020242871613272024-02-26T20:35:00.001-06:002024-02-26T20:35:20.707-06:00 Feb. 25, 2024, column from the Amarillo Globe-News:Party reminds us: Don’t just do it; pass it onBy Mike Haynes
Do
you sometimes think it would be good if people would get together with family
and friends to celebrate a loved one, expressing love and thanks to the person
while they are around to hearMike Hayneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03593310176618712397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3726957.post-19181393225469118632024-02-11T14:06:00.000-06:002024-02-11T14:06:08.763-06:00 Feb. 11, 2024, column from the Amarillo Globe-News:The wisdom of leaving a little extra aloneBy Mike Haynes
Most
of the time, I didn’t have part-time jobs in high school – not away from home,
anyway. I grew up on a ranch, so there was plenty to do helping Dad build fence
or feed cattle.
One summer, Mike Hayneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03593310176618712397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3726957.post-47994306295051068332024-01-28T17:53:00.003-06:002024-01-28T17:53:40.164-06:00 Jan. 28, 2024, column in the Amarillo Globe-News:'Surprised by Oxford' film highlights our longing for joyBy Mike Haynes I suspected, but wasn’t sure,
that the movie, “Surprised by Oxford,” had something to do with C.S. Lewis,
given that one of the Oxford and Cambridge professor’s well-known books is
“Mike Hayneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03593310176618712397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3726957.post-85326397844670781482024-01-14T15:38:00.002-06:002024-01-14T15:38:42.167-06:00Jan. 14, 2024, column from the Amarillo Globe-News:Books I read in 2023: Some recommended, some not so muchBy Mike Haynes
At the end of 2022, I wrote in
this space about the books I had read that year. I said it was seven, but I had
miscounted; it was eight.
 Mike Hayneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03593310176618712397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3726957.post-73510720672928049462023-12-31T14:53:00.002-06:002023-12-31T14:53:48.749-06:00 Dec. 31, 2023, column in the Amarillo Globe-NewsACU nuclear research gets national Christian exposureBy Mike Haynes
I was a little surprised to see
a feature story in Christianity Today, which The Washington Post has called
“evangelicalism’s flagship magazine,” about nuclear energy. I was even more
Mike Hayneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03593310176618712397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3726957.post-7944833781949789022023-12-22T16:39:00.004-06:002023-12-26T13:11:51.156-06:00 Dec. 17, 2023, column from the Amarillo Globe-News:'Twas the life before 'Christmas' of Clement C. MooreBy Mike Haynes
‘Twas the
night before Christmas, and Clement C. Moore
Gets
credit for writing the poem we adore.
He
told of St. Nicholas, but you might be surprised
That
he spent his long life teaching all about Christ.
 Mike Hayneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03593310176618712397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3726957.post-69013381929891989902023-12-03T14:11:00.003-06:002023-12-03T14:11:38.073-06:00Dec. 3, 2023, column from the Amarillo Globe-News Pilgrims' lessons from 1830 book - plus 'Peanuts' - needed todayBy Mike Haynes
Kathy
and I joined some of her family during the Thanksgiving weekend to watch “The
Mayflower Voyagers,” part of the 1988 miniseries, “This Is America, Charlie
Brown.”
&Mike Hayneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03593310176618712397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3726957.post-87033922649118583652023-11-21T14:20:00.003-06:002023-11-21T14:20:30.007-06:00Nov. 19, 2023, column from the Amarillo Globe-News:Pilgrims' first landing wasn't at Plymouth RockBy Mike Haynes
On a rainy day this September, Kathy
and I had two of the best sandwiches we’ve ever eaten. They were messy, with
gobs of macaroni and cheese filling the space between two pieces of toast at a
Mike Hayneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03593310176618712397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3726957.post-62102021866454984952023-11-06T18:13:00.001-06:002023-11-06T18:13:23.706-06:00Nov. 5, 2023, column from the Amarillo Globe-News:Wesley’s ‘proper’ way of hymns includes singing spirituallyBy Mike Haynes
A
Methodist pastor quoted part of John Wesley’s “Directions for Singing” at a
service a couple of weeks ago. Along with a whole library of sermons and other
Christian writing, the Mike Hayneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03593310176618712397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3726957.post-50041059255844546932023-10-22T15:47:00.000-05:002023-10-22T15:47:03.312-05:00Oct. 22, 2023, column from the Amarillo Globe-News:Tim Keller was rooted in traditional Christianity, love and graceBy Mike Haynes
Not
long after Timothy Keller died of cancer this May 19 at age 72, “Christianity
Today” magazine published a commemorative issue on the New York-based pastor
and writer. It Mike Hayneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03593310176618712397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3726957.post-55021203788293737222023-10-09T13:13:00.000-05:002023-10-09T13:13:15.893-05:00Oct. 8, 2023, column from the Amarillo Globe-News:Revolution began in colonies that had godly heritageBy Mike
Haynes
I must have been 10 or 12 when
Mom and Dad gave me a big book called “The Golden Book of the American
Revolution,” by the American Heritage Publishing Co., dated 1959.
&Mike Hayneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03593310176618712397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3726957.post-81862279929427022082023-10-04T12:02:00.006-05:002023-10-04T12:02:55.548-05:00Sept. 24, 2023, column from the Amarillo Globe-News:Jerry Clower's style may be different, but message of Christianity is the sameBy Mike
Haynes
I suspect a lot of people
reading this column are like me: equally comfortable with C.S. Lewis and Jerry
Clower.
Mike Hayneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03593310176618712397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3726957.post-52040725161144119062023-09-11T11:24:00.005-05:002023-09-11T11:24:51.806-05:00Sept. 10, 2023, column from the Amarillo Globe-News:The price of conflict: Tears flow from Irish eyesBy Mike
Haynes
June Proctor delivered her son,
John, on Sept. 9, 1981, in a small Northern Ireland hospital. Five days later
her husband, Johnnie Proctor, was surprised that he had been able to visit the
Mike Hayneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03593310176618712397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3726957.post-60737402726693146312023-08-27T16:44:00.001-05:002023-08-27T16:44:47.619-05:00 Aug. 27, 2023, column from the Amarillo Globe-News:C.S. Lewis retreat to focus on 'Silver Chair,'Amarillo author to debut new bookBy Mike
Haynes
Jill Pole receives “The Four
Signs” from Aslan the lion as she and friend Eustace Scrubb try to find the
kidnapped Prince Rilian. Jill is told to remember Mike Hayneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03593310176618712397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3726957.post-737760368726445312023-08-13T16:07:00.001-05:002023-08-13T16:26:55.165-05:00Aug. 13, 2023, column from the Amarillo Globe-News:<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Mike Hayneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03593310176618712397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3726957.post-43528640470018556222023-07-31T16:57:00.007-05:002023-07-31T16:58:45.625-05:00July 30, 2023, column from the Amarillo Globe-News:Chatbot sermons lack soul and heartBy Mike Haynes
A preacher paces next to the
front pew of a small church, alternating wide smiles and pauses with words of
reminiscence. Tears aren’t quite visible, but his eyes look a little wet. He’s
talking about the Mike Hayneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03593310176618712397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3726957.post-68207259725413475532023-07-16T14:55:00.001-05:002023-07-16T14:55:12.673-05:00 July 16, 2023, column from the Amarillo Globe-News:'Painted pages' in Canadian showcases biblical manuscriptsBy Mike
Haynes
The Citadelle Art Museum in
Canadian always is worth a visit with its permanent collection, regular
traveling exhibits and the mansion itself, which houses most of the artMike Hayneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03593310176618712397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3726957.post-87262422897241687992023-07-03T12:20:00.003-05:002023-07-03T12:22:25.313-05:00July 2, 2023, column from the Amarillo Globe-News:Finding refuge in God after tornadoes, tragedies strikeBy Mike Haynes
The “Verse of the Day” in this
newspaper on June 16 was from one of the “minor prophets” of the Old Testament:
&Mike Hayneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03593310176618712397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3726957.post-56325933349542000702023-06-18T15:34:00.005-05:002023-06-18T15:34:36.311-05:00 June 18, 2023, column from the Amarillo Globe-News:Wondering about Michelangelo, Lewis and post-truthBy Mike
Haynes
Just
wondering …
… whether you knew that before
painting his famous Sistine Chapel ceiling in Rome from 1508 to 1512,
Michelangelo primarily was a sculptor, having done the Pieta – Mike Hayneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03593310176618712397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3726957.post-67949351974928302562023-06-04T14:55:00.004-05:002023-06-04T15:02:42.663-05:00 June 4, 2023, column from the Amarillo Globe-News:Sistine Chapel exhibition gives a view like no otherBy Mike
Haynes
I was 19 when I walked with a
travel group into the Sistine Chapel, and I remember the shoulder-to-shoulder
tourists almost as much as I remember the wondrous ceiling and walls, Mike Hayneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03593310176618712397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3726957.post-69885642402929833272023-05-21T15:31:00.002-05:002023-05-21T15:31:55.584-05:00May 21, 2023, column in the Amarillo Globe-News:Giving thanks for Chesterton, Shelburne, blessingsBy Mike
Haynes
G.K. Chesterton is one of those
writers I’ve been vaguely aware of for decades, but I still have not read one
of his books. Sometimes he’s mentioned in the same breath as C.S. Lewis, who is
muchMike Hayneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03593310176618712397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3726957.post-61075722285255950002023-05-07T15:13:00.000-05:002023-05-07T15:13:00.952-05:00 May 7, 2023, column from the Amarillo Globe-News:Reflections on the coronation, King Charles and a seat of powerBy Mike Haynes
The
coronation of King Charles III was scheduled for Saturday, May 6, in London’s
Westminster Abbey. Assuming all went as planned, Charles was seated during part
of the Mike Hayneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03593310176618712397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3726957.post-70691587579070807732023-04-23T13:55:00.001-05:002023-04-23T13:55:37.226-05:00April 23, 2023, column from the Amarillo Globe-News:'The Father' gives us reminder to have compassion amid confusionBy Mike Haynes
It isn’t
because I’m old enough for senior discounts myself. I’ve felt this way as long
as I can remember.
&Mike Hayneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03593310176618712397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3726957.post-41448006841905092272023-04-09T13:44:00.006-05:002023-05-08T11:38:43.175-05:00 April 9, 2023 (Easter) column from the Amarillo Globe-News:Easter points to important aspects of the Christian faithBy Mike Haynes
The seven
last words of Jesus Christ on the cross are well known. Jim McKee, a longtime
Bible class teacher at Hillside Christian Church, presented an in-depth study
of Mike Hayneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03593310176618712397noreply@blogger.com