For 30 years, he glimmered to a soft steady brilliance, and to those who got here too late to witness the genius of television

Being salt and light demands two things: we practice purity in the midst of a fallen world and yet we live in proximity to this fallen world. If you don't hold up both truth in tension, you invariably becomes useless and separated from the world God loves.

He felt like an outsider. He felt angry, and he felt his brilliance was being overlooked. And he felt much smarter than the people around him.

He was the steady hand at the helm, in good times and in bad.

Even if you are blessed with brilliance that is threatening , do not let it show.

Yesterday the Iraqis and U.S. troops pulled down a giant statue of Saddam Hussein. They pull it down and it lands right on top of Geraldo.