BLIND BARTIMAEUS             When I was a high school senior my new girlfriend asked me to come with her to a Young Life meeting. Young Life was, and is, a nondenominational group that seeks to help teenagers relate to God. I had not grown up in any church, so this was all new to me.…

SINCE GAZA IS SO MUCH IN THE NEWS THESE DAYS…             Back in Biblical days Gaza figured into quite a few stories. First, there was Caleb and Josua who scoped out the what would be the promised land before the Hebrews conquered Palestine. One of the places they sighted was Gaza, which the Hebrews eventually…