History, Real Life, and Faith
I use my imagination all the time when reading the Bible. I put imagination to good use when I teach Bible study. But what does that mean? For me, it started when our youth pastor, Paul Anderson, asked, “imagine how the older brother feels,” when discussing the parable of The Prodigal Son. I was a new-to-Christianity 15-year-old and in the six minutes…
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What does a picture frame have to do with the Christian life? It depends how you look at it. The idea/words popped out of my mouth a number of years ago while talking with a childhood friend. We had grown up in each other’s library books while in elementary school, but the last time I’d seen her was at the 1984…
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I’ve been maintaining a Pinterest board for World War I for a dozen years. It’s part of the background for A Poppy in Remembrance, a novel set during World War I. The novel is a coming-of-age story about a young woman growing emotionally, spiritually, and professionally during the war. Oswald and Biddy Chambers are marquee characters in the novel, which is…
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What happened to British book publishing during wartime in the 1940s? I’d never given it much thought until I realized the iconic photo of the Blitz and St. Paul’s Cathedral in London really isn’t about St. Paul’s not burning down. It’s about one million books going up in flames, or as The Bookseller wrote on January 1, 19141, “it was…
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Today at a change of command for a Coast Guard friend, our pastor’s wife asked me if I’d ever attended one before. “Frequently for 20 years,” I said. Changes of commands are part of the military ritual and I enjoyed today’s very much. Most of my civilian friends, however, didn’t know what I what I was talking about. A change…
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Jesus, the Astrophysicists, and Me; an English major is astounded by God’s fingerprints!