A university library represents the pinnacle of literary scholarship and exhaustive research. It’s one of the signature places where minds expand, values are shaped, and causes are born. So, who would have ever guessed on an otherwise vacant wall of one of our nation’s best, some unremarkable student scrawled his ideological conviction that shattered the … [Read more…]
Sometime during the 105-day Winter War in Finland, but before the signing of the Moscow Peace Treaty on March 12, 1940, my wife’s mother, Anna-Liisa Kumpulainen, fled for her life; as did just about everyone from her hometown. “The Russians were coming!” to take over her beloved Viipuri and all of the Karelian Isthmus. 400,000 … [Read more…]
Someone once asked John Wanamaker, “How do you have time to conduct a Sunday School program for 4,000 scholars, when you’ve got two large department stores to run, oversee the nation’s postal system as our US Postmaster-General, while also performing many humani-tarian and civic duties?” Mr. Wanamaker simply replied, “Sunday School is my business! All … [Read more…]
Just over this past winter, we all witnessed several new things: April snow-showers are just now bringing May flowers; I got my 1st – and likely only – book published; our church family saw the end of an era with the Homegoing of our Matriarch, Norma Laubach. But talk about new! How ‘bout them Philadelphia … [Read more…]
Whenever there are five Sundays in a month, we celebrate our Lord in a different fashion. Instead of the usual order of service that includes a 30-minute sermon, our Praise Band leads us through about a dozen contemporary songs that are interspersed with prayers of thanksgiving and praise “from the floor.” Our P&P service always … [Read more…]
