Last summer, my 5-year-old and 3-year-old granddaughters were watching the Disney movie “Encanto” repeatedly. As a result, long after the…
When Philip Van Doren Stern’s 4,000-word short story “The Greatest Gift” failed to impress a prospective publisher, the writer and…
Earlier this fall, I was attending a leadership summit in a suburb of Chicago. Following our sessions one afternoon, I…
Oct. 31, 1994. It’s a day our family will never forget. It was a cold, windy and rainy Halloween. Our…
Last month was Breast Cancer Awareness Month. But for the last 25 years or so, October has also been observed…
The other day I came across my student pictorial directory from Fuller Seminary. Of course, I looked for the page…
There’s a line in the movie “A League of Their Own” where Tom Hanks’ character says, “There’s no crying in…
Where were you when you were told that Pearl Harbor had been bombed? What were you doing when you heard…
Three months before I began my freshman year at Seattle Pacific University in the fall of 1970, I went to…
During the height of COVID, quarantined artists in my community found a creative expression for their talent. They painted rocks…
A tribute to Bill Russell, who died July 31 at the age of 88.
A tribute to Bill Russell, who died July 31 at the age of 88.
I’ve had a fascination with typewriters since I was 3 years old. I used to sit at my pastor-father’s manual…
