“When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.” Hardly the uplifting or encouraging words you might expect from a book that influenced my life. But Dietrich Boenhoeffer didn’t pull any punches when…
It begins with, “In the beginning, God…” It concludes with, “The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all. Amen.” And in between is a whole lot. It’s the Bible, and it’s really long. Sixty…
A blog titled Junkyard Wisdom should post something about cars every now and then, don’t you think? I came across this article from Popular Mechanics and found it amusing. It’s a list of the top…
“Schools are the fabric of our culture,” said my friend Chris as he made announcements in church. Indeed they are, I thought, as memories of the past week went through my mind. June is graduation…
C.S. Lewis is one of my all time favorite authors. This list of 25 books that influenced my life could probably include several of his writings, but that would be unimaginative. So I have chosen…
I love fast paced trips. It’s fun to pack things into a short period of time and then just run on adrenaline. That’s an odd thing for this introvert to admit, but it’s true. And…
Here’s a book that almost everybody I know should read. Henri Nouwen was brilliant, of course. He gave a talk on fundraising and somebody had the good sense to publish it as A Spirituality of…
I recently heard about a friend going through a very difficult divorce. She is married to a man who has done some despicable things and he doesn’t deserve her. It saddened me, and it once…