Just a quick note from the road…
After visiting Karyn’s youngest sister and family on Friday just north of NYC, on Saturday we attended the Cornell graduation of Karyn’s niece Sophia. And last night, at my wife’s insistence (not much pain in my arm from the twisting, though) we had a night alone at this Marriot [...]

The title of this post refers back to The Black Hole post last week right before our final exams began. I’m happy to announce that we have emerged from the other side with our molecular structures intact. But man, I never want to have infinite mass ever again….you wouldn’t believe the headache!
So for us, Christmas [...]

As my undergraduate degree comes from Liberty University’s distance program (then known as the School of Lifelong Learning), I found the following quotes from Douglas Wilson concerning evangelical colleges to be amusing (and like most truly amusing things….true!):
If we were to judge from the way Christian colleges advertise themselves to prospective students, we might conclude [...]

Here’s an email we just receieved from Pastor Steve at liberti church here in Philly, where Karyn and I have been worshiping recently.
Brothers and sisters,
Greetings from Yei, Sudan,
Four flights and 59 hours after leaving terminal 4 of Philly International, we touched in the hot, green town of Yei, Sudan. Thank you for all of [...]

Each weekday Karyn and I get in our 2000 Hyundai and drive to our seminary classes in climate-controlled comfort. The most dangerous part of our journey is probably turning left onto Edge Hill Road.
A week ago some pastors in war-torn Sudan walked barefoot for days, crossing aligator-infested rivers, to reach their “seminary.” Several members from [...]

Every so often on these pages I take a moment to point you to a fellow blogger whose writing I think is worthy of your notice.
The post A Beautiful Machine (God, Man, and Cargo Jets) is an excellent introduction to the writing of Pastor Pat, leader of a church plant in Minnesota. I often [...]

When my daughter Hannah asks our granddaughter Éva to smile for my wife, this is the resulting picture:

When she asks Éva to smile for her Poppy (that’s me) we get this:

For those of you who were interested in the incomplete discussion between myself and my friend Steve over the nature of Christian belief in these pages a couple of months ago, we have picked it up in the last couple of days on his blog. Go to this post.