History, Real Life and Faith
My Zumba teacher employed some World War I slang this morning as one of our dancers hurried out to work. “Good luck in the trenches!” The class all laughed, as did I, but my mind didn’t follow Becky out the door. Instead, it hunkered down at the word and I marveled at how events from 100 years ago still live in…
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I’d been reading about the lion in the Bible before I went to Europe and I met a lot of paintings, statues and references to them when I got there. Indeed, the more I thought about it, I wondered if they were rampant across the continents two thousand and more years ago, something like vicious rats with teeth and claws….
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I’d been reading about the lion in the Bible before I went to Europe and I met a lot of paintings, statues and references to them when I got there. Indeed, the more I thought about it, I wondered if they were rampant across the continents two thousand and more years ago, something like vicious rats with teeth and claws….
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I learned something about thanks my second year of college and the lesson came, from of all people, the band director Kelly James. Kelly, as we called him, had been the band director for many years by the time I arrived in his clarinet section, and since I wasn’t a brass player (the UCLA band is known as having a…
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After spending two years researching and writing about World War I, I traveled to Europe on a family vacation, which took us to Salzburg, Austria. During those two years, I’d noticed a dearth of information about the war from the Austro-Hungarian/German side. When crawling through Pinterest looking for WWI photos, few of them seemed to be from German or Austrian sources…
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How can you tell if you are experiencing true guilt or false guilt? That’s been a tormenting question my entire Christian life. I was raised in a church setting and among well-meaning folks who used shame and guilt to control children. As a dutiful first born, I imbibed those notions deep within. I continually felt guilty about one thing or…
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