Out Our Way: The Gospel According to Goliath: The real deal

Mark 7:1-23

As some of you may know, the name of this column, "Out Our Way," is based on the work of J.R. Williams, a cartoonist from back in the '30s and '40s, who immortalized the cowboy with his single-panel cartoons. My dad had a book of his cowboy cartoons that I still have and still go to from time to time.

One of my favorites was a cartoon of a scrawny old man sitting in a kid's saddle on a worn out plug mare, wearing a worn out suit coat and hat, shoes and a single spur. One of the old-time cowboys tells a relative newcomer to the west that that old guy is the richest rancher in t...