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Sacrificing Their Lives to Work
At 17 he went to look for another future. He left his friends from the Instituto Nuevo Amanecer, where he was a junior, behind in Honduras. He left his passion for soccer, the evangelical church where he used to sing, his siblings—Wilfredo, 25, and Iris, 19—and he left Juana, his mother. He took with him…
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Looking for bugs
Our recent family vacation involved lots of reading, walks along quiet roads, swimming in a lake, cooking delicious meals and looking for bugs. In this case, a grasshopper. We’re grateful for friends who make available their cottage for our enjoyment and rest.
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Jesus Christ and the Life of the Mind
There simply is nothing humanly possible to study about the created realm that, in principle, leads us away from Jesus Christ. To be sure, humans may misunderstand knowledge gained by studying the world, put it to evil uses, transform it into an idol, or otherwise abuse it. But these shortcomings do not alter the fact…
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Thunder Soul
The marketing folks for an intriguing documentary emailed me recently with an offer to attend an upcoming screening of Thunder Soul. The film is about the Kashmere High School Stage Band in Houston and it’s legendary leader. Learn more and view the trailer on the website.
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Wendell Berry on Parenthood
But I have thought, too, that the term of human judgment is longer than parenthood, that the upbringing we give our children is not just for their childhood but for all their lives. And it is sure the duty of the older generation to be embarrassingly old-fashioned, for the claims of the “newness” of any…
David W. Swanson
Pastor and Author
David W. Swanson 