This is the controversial sculpture meant to represent the city where I reside, Rockford, Illinois. I say “controversial,” because the name of it is Symbol, and yet no one seems able to agree on what the meaning of the…

This is the controversial sculpture meant to represent the city where I reside, Rockford, Illinois. I say “controversial,” because the name of it is Symbol, and yet no one seems able to agree on what the meaning of the…

This is the controversial sculpture meant to represent the city where I reside, Rockford, Illinois. I say “controversial,” because the name of it is Symbol, and yet no one seems able to agree on what the meaning of the…

Dear friends:

I received the following e-mail from my good friend and the daughter of Fred and Ruth Fueller, missionaries to Hamburg, Germany. The tragedy of these events is overwhelming for me, just a distant acquaintance. I can’t imagine what Dennis and his mother are going through. Please join us …

Everything’s incredible, if you can skin off the crust of obviousness our habits put upon it. ~ Aldous Huxley…

Everything’s incredible, if you can skin off the crust of obviousness our habits put upon it. ~ Aldous Huxley…

Everything’s incredible, if you can skin off the crust of obviousness our habits put upon it. ~ Aldous Huxley…

The German mission team is in Hamburg this week. This is the third German mission team I thought I might travel with, but didn’t. Last summer, when I thought I’d be going back down to Greenville for grad school, I wrote my German professor and asked him if there were …

In deciding whether they should take their children to see the forthcoming Narnia movie, my esteemed colleague Aaron Wolf and his wife asked themselves “WWJD?” — as in, “What Would Jack Do?” Among some other insightful (and delightful) things he…