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Brian and I have just returned from leading our 10th tour of Israel, and we both say it was the best yet. You’d think it would be boring by now, seeing the same old things time after time. How could it be the best yet? I’ve been asked this more than once the past few [...]

The last week of December has some of the shortest days of the year. It is the time of the year when darkness falls all of a sudden, as if the sun, after a day of shining with all its might, desperately but futilely trying to warm a frigid world, reaches the horizon, strains valiantly [...]

Yes, Happy Holidays! Happy Holy Days! All of them! I’m sorry that some Christian people are angry when they are greeted this way by checkout clerks while Christmas shopping. I hope they don’t respond in sanctimonious sarcasm, with their offended noses tilted in the air, “No, it’s MERRY CHRISSSTTTMASSS!!!” I think it’s wonderful that American [...]

In 1965, when I was five years old, we moved into the neighborhood I would live in for the rest of my childhood years, a home with a big backyard, lots of trees, and a long line of lilac bushes that divided our yard from the neighbors. Our neighbors were a childless couple in their [...]

That was the headline of an AP article in Monday’s Kansas City Star–all about deep vein thrombosis and the US Surgeon General’s campaign to bring more public awareness to a medical problem that kills more than 100,000 Americans a year. That’s what unexpectedly landed me in the hospital for four days last week. I am [...]

“The deep fear behind every loss is that we have been abandoned by the God who should have saved us. The transforming moment in Christian conversion comes when we realize that even God has left us. We then discover it was not God, but our image of God that abandoned us…. Only then is change [...]

I just finished this book….I’ll give it 6 stars on a 5-star scale. it was very impacting and timely. This is a story about a particularly hard time in American history, but it is also about the sometimes crushing effects of “progress”–what happens when government and everything else gets bigger and bigger and little people [...]

I frequently have dreams where I dream I’m dreaming. Or maybe I wake up and realize I’m dreaming? I’m not sure….like this one I had last night…… I was on a road trip, going down the interstate, all by myself, pulling a big trailer with another small trailer attached to that one. I pulled off [...]

I walked into the garage today and saw my car had a flat tire. And so in anguish I cried out with a loud voice, “O God, WHY? Why has this happened to me?” Just kidding. It was pretty apparent why this had happened to me. Closer examination revealed a nail stuck in the tire. [...]

For those who don’t know…..Peri Zahnd becomes Miss Lucy when she’s in the mountains, and her main man is Mr. Jinks. It’s become a familiar occurrence—the alarm clock going off once a year at 1 am during our family vacation—the wake-up call for the Longs Peak climb. The past two years I got up and [...]