Clinton’s early actions to relax abortion requirements and to admit homosexuals into the military left friends and foes alike to ponder how deep his liberal agenda may be. With liberalism in low esteem in America, Clinton’s first weeks’ ratings were…
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I was typing in the main office when a salesman stopped by to give our secretary his card. With an associate, he had recently opened a computer sales and service company in nearby Pendleton County, by area the least-populous county…
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Twenty-five years ago I bought a small cabin in a woods on the Canadian side of Lake Huron. I paid a mere $4,000 for it, since it was a hundred yards off the lake, and since it was primitive, with…
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I remember a visiting pastor coming to my church in rural Michigan when I was a kid. He was George Bernard, the man who wrote “The Old Rugged Cross,” by some statistical reckoning, the most-sung hymn ever written. That evening,…
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Christ preached against worldliness, in the sense that a life focused on external riches, power and status atrophies in its deeper essences. If we are thinking too much about the next possession or promotion, then we miss opportunities to grow…
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My son and I dropped out of mainstream society for a couple of years back in the 1970s. We started out living in a thatch-roofed, unelectrified cabin in Florida. The first winter we built a treehouse in the woods behind,…
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