History, Real Life, and Faith
What does the book of Exodus have to do with the late Hollywood film director Cecil B. DeMille? More than you may think. For many American Christians, and possibly others around the world, their knowledge about the original ten commandments is influenced by his films, The Ten Commandments. (Films is correct. He made the movie twice: in both 1923 and…
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VBS 2020 required far more meetings, usually via Zoom, than ever in the past. Our church loves presenting VBS. We know the kids enjoy it and certainly, this year, everyone needed an outlet. But who wanted another online meeting, no matter how clever, for VBS 2020? We wanted the kids outside in the fresh air. How to do it? How…
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The Headhunter’s Bride is a book of narrative nonfiction, published in 1952, by Dr. B. H. Pearson. I picked up this book because of the provocative title, but also because it’s directly related to Lettie Cowman. I’ve even got a photo of Lettie with a headhunter. According to Pearson, he first heard the story from Lettie. He found it so…
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Is the Bible only about good people?
I’ve written 900 blog posts for this website. Since I’ve been writing here since December 2010, that probably isn’t surprising. That’s roughly 700,000 words. I hope they were good ones! Most Read of the 900 blog posts The top ten, most-read of those 900 posts are these: Bagpipes in the WWI Trenches (#1 on Google) Whatever Happened to Kathleen Chambers?…
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When bookshelves and books appear in photo or video backgrounds, do you zero in on them? Oh, sure, you’re listening to the person being interviewed, or at least you make note of them, but are your eyes sirened in another direction? A friend asked the question the other day and three of us immediately admitted we scanned the book titles….
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