Believability, Between Heaven and Hell

by Gary     I’m reading a book right now that Jordan Cory recommended to me. It’s by Peter Kreeft, who is a Professor of Psychology at Boston College and a well-written Christian apologist. The book is titled Between Heaven and Hell. It’s a supposed conversation between C.S. Lewis, John F. Kennedy and Aldous Huxley that occurs [...]

Reclaiming the Imagination

by Gary     Expanding thinking and imagination is very important to me. Too often we separate those two things: believing that thinking is mature but that using the imagination is immature. But the two must work in tandem for full potential to be reached in communicating, teaching, planning and living. So I was excited recently to attend [...]

Take Your Shoes Off and Stay A While

by Gary   The weather was a little warm for my taste this past weekend at the annual Fall Retreat at Spring Mill Bible Camp. I was sitting on the porch Saturday morning with the weather on my mind when Jayce Wininger came up from his cabin. Jayce has some wild hair right now and I’m [...]

Trickle, Trickle, Little Stars

by Gary
I was talking to ‘ole Nobe yesterday. It’s always a treat to talk to Noble Mundy. We talk mostly on Sunday mornings; working side-by-side setting up chairs in the Family Life Center for worship. Noble and I talk sports, jokes, kids, grandkids and about why it’s tough to get anybody to help do anything [...]

Plato, a Platypus, a Bookstore, Bad Jokes and Eternal Truth

by Gary
Meghan Hill, Lindsay Slone and I walked into a book store in Detroit, Michigan. Sounds like the beginning of a joke, right? It gets better.
Just inside the store, on the impulse buying rack, was a book: Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar. You can’t walk past a book with a title like that so [...]