History, Real Life, and Faith
We’ve been talking about hiking Dungeness Spit again for years. When we lived in western Washington long ago, we would travel two hours north to walk on the narrow beach that bends into the Straits of Juan de Fuca near Sequim. It’s a 5.5 mile hike from where you enter a park to a lighthouse perched on the end–basically where cargo ships turn south…
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5 reasons why it’s important to study the Bible and how to do it
The best WWII romance: A Town Like Alice
Haven’t you always loved summer reading? Especially when you were a kid with an entire summer to fill with good books, movies, games and outdoor play–maybe even swimming? But it was always time to lay around reading that captured my heart each June when school let out. I could only check out ten books at a time, and I hounded…
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Our church’s eyeglasses mission visited the Rio San Juan region of Nicaragua for the tenth straight year in 2016. The Rio San Juan area, the poorest region of the second poorest country in Central America, has only limited medical facilities. Using a mobile autorefractor, the experience of our leader John, and the organizational skills of in-country citizens Rafael and optometrist…
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Am I a Pharisee like those Jewish scholars in the Gospels? Sometimes I can see where they’re coming from when they challenge Jesus again and again in Matthew, Mark, Luke and John’s books of the New Testament. Not all the time; but they’re such splendid targets to disdain. Except when their misunderstandings and words echo in my heart and life. Then…
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