Bonnie — the unicycle-riding, trumpet-playing, lepidopterist who writes at Intellectuelle — has tagged me to join in a new meme with the following rules:Let others know who tagged you. Post 8 random facts about yourself. Post these rules. Tag 8 others to continue the memeHere is my ... Continue reading
Re-thinking Rachel Carson
June 22, 2007 By
A fundamental part of the Christian world view is that we live in a fallen world. This applies to the environment. Just as man is morally corrupt as a result of the fall, the environment is also corrupted. Just as man has the responsibility, before God to address moral corruption, he has the ... Continue reading
Virginia Tech and suffering
April 16, 2007 By
Many of us are at a loss for words after the senseless wickedness of an angry young man killing 32 innocent students at Virginia Tech. There will be time for reflection and analysis later. For now, we should pray for the injured and the grieving.In the final hours of His life, Jesus gave this ... Continue reading
Living with paralysis
April 2, 2007 By
In an updated post on Dan Knudsen, the young college student who broke his neck in a tumbling accident while working as a camp counselor during spring break, his family talks about the differences between a "complete" spinal cord injury and one where the nerve signal interruption is ... Continue reading
Dan Knudsen
March 21, 2007 By
Dan Knudsen, a 20-year-old student at Cedarville University in Ohio joined several of his classmates to spend spring break staffing a camp for Christian teens in the city of Puebla, Mexico. Cedarville encourages its students to take part in missions projects, raising their own financial support to ... Continue reading
Wave phrases
February 6, 2007 By
I used to think I understood things. As my hair has grayed, I've grown less sure of myself.You couldn't tell me anything in high school — I knew it all. I had life figured out. Do you remember those days?This piece by Catez Stevens took me back to those days of youthful confidence and ... Continue reading
Carrying our bones
January 6, 2007 By 3 Comments
On the first beautiful Sunday in spring, when the air was crisp and the sky deep blue, my parents and grandparents would bundle us off to the family cemetery to pay our respects. They had gathered fresh-cut flowers from my grandmother's garden, and I remember my grandmother wearing a hat and white ... Continue reading
Gerald Ford: Liberty and responsibility
December 28, 2006 By
The imperial presidency of Richard Nixon was indeed a "long, national nightmare," in the words of Gerald Ford, a president who was not Nixon's equal when it came to grand, political vision, but was his superior in humility and patriotic respect for America and the constitutional institutions that ... Continue reading
