Today is December 31, 2005, New Year’s Eve. It is also my thirtieth anniversary. Nancy and I were married New Year’s Eve, 1975. It took us a few years to figure out why the restaurants were always so crowded when we went out to celebrate. I met Nancy the year before we married, but I …
Roots By The River
My father has started a blog, and I would like to commend it to you. It is called Roots By The River, and it can be found here. I have also put a permanent link off to the left.
Check It Out
My son Nate wrote a review of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe for Books and Culture. That review is now on-line and can be found at the Christianity Today site here.
An Unscientific Poll
I need to take an unscientific poll. Does your screen prefer the font size of the previous post, or do you prefer the one before that? Which is easier to read? I am fooling around a little bit, and would like to finally settle in your comfy zone. Because that’s what this blog is really …
Philosophy and Me
I think it was Paul Simon who said somewhere that his “life of education hasn’t hurt me none.” I can’t quite say the same thing, but at least I survived it. I grew up in a conservative evangelical home, a place where Christ was consistently honored and loved. But it being the late fifties and …
Format Housekeeping
For those concerned, the RSS feed should be working again. A double-dash was throwing it off. As my web master put it, “RSS is rather picky to ‘illegal’ characters.” Also, because it appears that we will not have to deal with cyber attacks, we have removed the strict filtering of HTML formatting. So this means …
Witticisms from the Congregation
This last Sunday, I started a series of messages through the books of Ezra and Nehemiah. The previous Lord’s Day I concluded a long series of messages on marriage (39 sermons), which one young wag in the congregation told me should be entitled the “forty stripes save one” series. And this Sunday I had to spend …
Open Mic Night
The comments feature of this blog is still relatively new. From the beginning, the intent was to drive it around the block a few times and see what falls off. On the whole I have been very pleased with a number of things. The tenor of comments has been generally good, and the anticipated flamers …
Like You Were There
For a number of years, I have had the privilege of speaking on education reform to various groups of parents around the country. During that time, I have often wished that there was a good way for me to illustrate for these parents what school children are really capable of, and what remarkable things they …
Well, Then. Have At It.
I am glad to announce a new feature of this blog, which is that it is actually becoming a blog. Up to this point, it has been more of a web site, without the capacity for you all to respond or comment. But as of this morning, you should notice at the bottom of each …