About three years ago I wrote an article entitled “Who You Gonna Believe? Me or Your Lying Eyes?” The article addressed the hyper-ness of all “connect-the-dots” conspiratorial thinking, along with my impression (I used the phrase “it seems plain to me”) that the New York 911 skyscrapers had been brought down by some form of …
A Real Honor
I am looking forward to seeing what comes out of Nate’s visit to Florida tomorrow. He has been invited to go to a literacy event hosted there by the Bush family — you can read more about it here. As I have thought about this invitation (and you can believe I have been thinking about …
Kings of Schlock
As many of you know, over the years I have made a goodish bit of fun at the expense of evangelical schlock. Some folks might be excused if they had come to the conclusion that perhaps I thought that evangelical schlock was the worst schlock there ever was. This would be a misunderstanding, but given …
Marriage Was Such a Good Idea
Wishing you all a very blessed new year. I was tired of 2010 anyway. And today is our 35th wedding anniversary, and the weather worked together with us in celebrating it. As I told Nancy this morning . . . half way to seventy!
The Yellow House on Howard
Last Thursday we held the memorial service for my mother In one part of the service, we asked a grandson from each of the four lines of the family to say a few things in memory of their grandmother. Here are Nate’s comments, and you can watch them below. Elizabeth Catherine Wilson – In …
Memorial Service for Bessie Wilson
The community-wide memorial service for my mother, Bessie Wilson, has been set for Oct. 14, 2010, at the Nazarene Church in Moscow. There will be a 45 minute song service starting at 1 pm, in which we will listen to or sing some of my mother’s favorite hymns. As one who longed for Heaven, she …
Elizabeth Catherine Dodds Wilson (1919-2010)
This morning my mother went to be with her Lord and Savior after many extraordinarily fruitful years of serving Him. She was 91, and had been a follower of Christ for 75 of those years. All three of her sons live here in Moscow, and my sister Heather, who lives in California, arrived last night …
That’s the Way You Do It
One of the things I used to do in the Navy was let the guys know, as soon as I got to a new assignment, that I was a Christian. I figured that if I did that right off, they would help hold me to it. So somehow, some way, on the first day, I …
My First Sermon and Welcome to It
I joined the Navy when I was still seventeen, and still in high school. It was a delayed entry, so I did not have to report until the next November. That allowed me to graduate (from Pioneer High School in Ann Arbor), and to help my family use the summer to move out west, to …
Trace Elements of the Coming Glory
Last night my wife took a picture off our east deck (with her phone), and that pic is posted below. She put it up on her blog, and I wanted to do the same here, because it illustrates a point I have often wondered about. Why is it that nature photography is so limited, in …