Midway through college, I made what my son considers to be the biggest mistake of my life. I marched into the registrar’s office and declared a new major: political science. I murdered my...
What would you think if the school system cut back time on academics and required recess twice a day? Or, what if—at...
My dad loved Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion. He listened to this radio program faithfully, often wearing his favorite shirt: a Prairie Home Companion T-shirt. So, when my dad died and...
As a teacher, I help students become what God intended them to be as His image and likeness: culture-makers!
Some cultural artifacts—like stories and art—seem to live forever, as successive generations learn to love them. Other works, like most of the...
I was picking up my daughter from Sunday School last week when another mother started cross-examining me about my job. We had...
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On February 1, Knopf published The Fear Index, a novel by Robert Harris, who also authored The Ghost (called The Ghost Writer in the movie version), Fatherland (an alternate-history classic), and a...
It's a Wednesday morning in Haiti, in a dim room with no light bulb. I am a spectator to the quiet work of five women.
The producer explained that he’d found me through my blog while searching for guests for an episode on motherhood.
Over the last few reflections on Philemon, we haven’t spent any time thinking about Paul’s methods of persuasion in this letter. At...
The academic professionals I was working with simply didn't understand my vision. I might as well have been walking around with a...
Who was an important mentor in your life?
A couple of weeks ago, my wife texted me, “Don’t forget to buy Megamillions tickets!:)” ...
I enjoy what I do. Like a beaming third grader, I do my work well so the boss will be happy. I...
Help me, like Onesimus, to be useful to others. Let me serve my supervisor in a way that honors him and does...
Transcript As a young Raytheon engineer in 1945, Percy Spencer should have been hard at work on military radar. Instead, he was distracted and a bit angry at the spreading stain on his...
