One cold Saturday morning when I was 8, my Grandpa Jennings tried to show me how to milk a cow by hand. The old cow didn’t like it, and neither did I. After trying hard […]

Every Advent season I think of Sikolastiki from the Republic of Congo. Sikolastiki was a co-worker of my missionary friend Carolyn Butler who, along with her husband Ron, served 35 years in the Congo. In […]

Joseph was engaged to Mary when she told Joseph she was pregnant. Her “found to be pregnant by the Holy Spirit” explanation didn’t work for Joseph or surely his parents. I can only imagine how […]

On Sunday November 6 I sat in Living Faith Anglican Church in Tempe, Arizona, celebrating All Saints Day. The first Sunday in November many churches take time to celebrate and remember the saints of the […]

My October 9 column for the Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette, explains how those prayer times started and became such a vital part of my life. —–             Three blocks from my boyhood home in Hoxie, Kansas, was […]

At the end of our Sunday services we congregants at Living Faith Anglican Church in Tempe move our hands toward the cross and repeat what we learned from a church in Kenya… “All our problems, […]

When the Russian bombing in Ukraine started, my mind went back to early on the morning of September 4, 2015. After shaving and showering, I sat down in my office with my coffee to read, […]

Forty-three and a half years ago on a hot Phoenix afternoon, I guided my 1974 baby-blue Ford LTD north on the Black Canyon Freeway. Jennifer, my new bride, was snuggled up next to me on […]