ldquo She is tolerable but not handsome enough to tempt me rdquo This sentence pronounced by Mr Darcy in Jane Austen rsquo s Pride and Prejudice is the reason I will never forget that novel and its impact on me Because after reading that one sentence I firmly decided I would never like Mr Darcy But I was wrong Like Austen rsquo s character Elizabeth Bennet I had the humbling experience of slowly mdash and quite reluctantly mdash changing my mind Like her I rsquo d been unwilling to get to know Darcy rsquo s character as a whole I [... more]

Pastor Bryan Loritts joins his father Pastor Crawford Loritts to talk about the value of a father's integrity Integrity Crawford explains doesn't mean perfection but it means admitting one's shortcomings To illustrate Crawford tells a story about disciplining Bryan for something he had told him repeatedly not to do only to find out later Bryan didn't do it Upon realizing this Crawford drove to Bryan's school and pulled him out of class to apologize In turn Bryan tells of a time when his father's response to a car accident made Bryan realize just how seriously his father took his faith [... more]