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Author: Don Follis

The two ends of the Taut Rope

  • by Don Follis
  • Posted on March 4, 2019February 24, 2020
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Almost every day I feel like following Jesus is like holding a taut rope.  One the hand I go through my day feeling like my best is not good enough, no matter what I do.  […]

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Oh the mysteries of life

  • by Don Follis
  • Posted on February 24, 2019February 24, 2020
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I have just finished Julie Yip-Williams’ The Unwinding of the Miracle — A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After (Random House, 2019). What a powerful read. The book is Yip-Williams’ account of […]

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What do you think you control?

  • by Don Follis
  • Posted on February 18, 2019February 24, 2020
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I am reading The Unwinding of the Miracle by Julie Yip-Williams. She died last March (2018) of colon cancer at age 42. She was born into a poor family in 1975 in Viet Nam with […]

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The 88-year-old deposed Cardinal living — at least for a while — near my hometown

  • by Don Follis
  • Posted on February 17, 2019March 21, 2019
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My hometown of Colby Kansas, sits just  north of Interstate 70 in Northwest Kansas. Victoria, Kansas (about 100 miles to the east of Colby) sits immediately south of Interstate 70. Victoria is the home to the […]

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41 years ago today it snowed in Manhattan, Kansas, and I was in Love

  • by Don Follis
  • Posted on February 14, 2019March 21, 2019
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41 years ago today I was dating a freshman girl at a small Christian college in Manhattan, Kansas, named Jennifer Earles. She was from Phoenix, Arizona and had come from the desert to Kansas for […]

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Showing empathy and respect is our only hope

  • by Don Follis
  • Posted on February 10, 2019
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My column in today’s Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette is a result of a conversation I had with a pastor recently who told me he really fears the next two years, as the drums for the next presidential […]

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What in the Sam Hill is going on down here anyway?

  • by Don Follis
  • Posted on January 30, 2019February 24, 2020
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My custom most mornings is to start by spending time reading the Bible, praying, thinking and writing in my journal. Then I turn to the news of the day. Today’s edition of the New York Times […]

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Given the deep political divide in this country, how will we ever even begin to show proper empathy and respect?

  • by Don Follis
  • Posted on January 21, 2019March 21, 2019
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The political divide in this country cuts deeply, into how we view politics, where we live, who we want our kids to marry, and even where we go to church. Who can we ever trust, […]

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