The Gold Standard for Kindness and Its Cost

The Gold Standard for Kindness and Its Cost

by | Nov 5, 2023

We had hustled to get to the train station in Kiev. It was about 9:30 P.M. Rick, our missionary host, was a professor at Kyiv Theological  Seminary.  He had gotten all seven of us Americans aboard and stepped off the train to wave good-bye. We were going to...
The War

The War

by | Oct 30, 2023

The news is aflame with the war in Israel.  Hamas, the terrorist organization headquartered in Gaza, attacked Israel on Saturday, October 7, killing many, taking hostages and creating general mayhem. As of today (October 16), Hamas holds 199 hostages. Have...
God Protecting Us From Ourselves

God Protecting Us From Ourselves

by | Oct 29, 2023

We were out together at de Boer’s in Holland, Michigan – Rita, a former neighbor from greater Detroit, Rob & his wife, Lynn, and Marilyn and me. Rita and Rob & Lynn were former army buddies who were in language school in Monterey California years ago. ...
Does a Need Constitute a Call

Does a Need Constitute a Call

by | Oct 22, 2023

A Canadian missionary author friend said to me, “It would take eight years of producing books [at my current rate of productivity] to fill the requests that I now have on hand.”  He was feeling overwhelmed and unable to satisfy the thirst of people all over the world...
Miserable White House Years But Better Later

Miserable White House Years But Better Later

by | Oct 15, 2023

The night before her husband, John Quincy Adams,  was inaugurated as the sixth president of the United States, Louisa Adams was “seized with a violent fever,” John Quincy wrote in his diary. A doctor was summoned and she was bled. She was ill all night, and before...