Say This Prayer Into the Past
When I think of my friend Paul Willis I think of a person with a gentle soul. But at the same time I think of a person with a wise soul, a man of depth…
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David and Goliath
When I was growing up one of my favorite Biblical stories was David and Goliath. Okay, so it didn’t work out so well for Goliath or the Philistines. But it’s a story a kid can understand…
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Empty Mansions, by Paul Clark Newell and Bill Dedman
Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune is one of those books written for a reader like me. A lover of history, curious about the ethics…
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Frozen in Time
One of my favorite books of 2011 was Lost in Shangri La by Mitchell Zuckoff. A true story of adventure, heroics, World War II legends and remote jungle tribes, the book holds the reader from…
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Twenty Five Books That Influenced My Life — #1
So here we are, nineteen months after my first post in the series on 25 books that influenced my life. I’ve described a wide range of books, from comics to textbooks, from classic novels to…
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Prized Possession
I met Alan Smyth about 20 years ago when we both attended a church in Fremont, California. He was the local Young Life Director and clearly a guy with great talent. Over the years we’ve…
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Wine and War
If you read this blog you know how much I enjoy wine. You probably also realize from my book reviews how much I love history. And yes, I’ve read lots of history books about wine….
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Twenty Five Books That Influenced My Life – #2
If you know me well and looked through my 25 most influential books, it would be fairly obvious which author is missing from the list. J.R.R. Tolkien. I was in junior high school when somebody…