Terry Mattingly
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- Sep 16, 2026
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When the alarm sounds, do you know where to go? (opens the original)
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Last month, we talked about working smoke alarms and the precious time they can provide when a fire starts. This month, I want you to think about the next question: When that alarm sounds, does everyone in your home know what to do? A smoke alarm tells you there is danger. A home fire escape plan tells you what to do next. Imagine waking up in the middle of the night to the sound of your smoke alarm. The house is dark. You smell smoke. Your normal path to the front door may already be blocked. W
MATTINGLY: The spiritual journey of Dolly (opens the original)
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When Robert Lee Parton died in 2000, the illiterate former sharecropper asked his large musical family to sing "If We Never Meet Again (This Side of Heaven)," his favorite country-gospel song. "If we never meet again this side of heaven / As we struggle through this world and its strife / There's another meeting place somewhere in heaven / By the river of life," they sang. Recalling that family salute to the eternal ties that bind led his daughter Dolly Parton to ask that Albert E. Brumley's hym
MATTINGLY: Homer, Nolan and the seven deadly sins (opens the original)
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After watching Christopher Nolan's take on "The Odyssey," Father Dwight Longenecker remembered a comment Steven Spielberg made in a movie commentary while discussing how viewers react to symbolism in cinema. The legendary director, a progressive Jew, was responding to comments that prominent crosses in the "Saving Private Ryan" cemetery scenes suggested that the hero was a Christ figure who suffered to save a lost soul. Spielberg replied: "I'm always fascinated to learn about the things people s
MATTINGLY: Did Ann Widdecombe die a political and Catholic martyr? (opens the original)
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In her student days, Ann Widdecombe's first Oxford Union presentation was an attack on censorship, even if practicing free speech turned out to be risky or painful. A half-century later, the former Conservative MP and outspoken Catholic returned to the legendary debate club to address the same subject, at one point explaining why she once agreed to share a speaker's platform with an Irish Republican Army activist. "So, you wanted to blow me up," Widdecombe said in 2019, referring to the 1984 Gra
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