When I was nineteen my dad made me work in the sawmill. He was the Vice-President of the sawmill. The owner was the President, and he lived in Europe. My dad’s position was co-equal with the General Manager. I did not fill out an application or have a job interview…

A FB-friend posted the following statement, and it makes me wonder how many of my evangelical and Christian friends would agree? She wrote: “I choose not to be afraid of Covid because that’s what Satan wants, that’s what he’s using to terrify the world. Fear confuses, divides, and destroys… all…

Maggie, A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane is one of the funnier American novels that I have read. It’s not a laugh riot, but more in a dark comedy kind of way. In fact, due to the exaggerated almost cartoonish descriptions both of scene and character, Maggie falls…

Suffering does not build character. There is no rock bottom. And what doesn’t kill you now may still kill you in the future; it does not necessarily make you stronger. Experience and many of the world’s philosophies indicate that times of suffering are inevitable if not essential to existence, as…