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…

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…

Since I can’t always get to Liquid Highway in the middle of the day for my coffee cravings, I swung by Coffee Underground on my lunch hour. I ordered the Turtle Mocha. It was beyond fabulous; the kind of fabulous…

A marvelous thing happened in Sunday evening Bible study this weekend. We had three new visitors. Four, if you count the gigantic beach-ball that was Yan’s belly. Peng and Wendy invited Yan, who is expecting her first child–a little boy. Yan brought her parents-in-law. Her mother-in-law, a beautiful, tiny …

I fled Burger King today. I wouldn’t call it cowardice. Following an extended critique of a semester worth of ceramic ware, I left Greenville Tech and veered into a Spinx/Burger King hybrid mart. The Coca-Cola comes in unleaded. Once in…

I haven’t given up on my plan to memorize a passage a week. I did take a little break, but I’m back. I struggle with importance. I want to feel important, to know that I’m special, to feel special. I…