For much of my life as an educator I followed the Biblical Creation debates with interest and touched on them myself several times during my Master's and PhD degree programs and in my role as a church leader and Sunday School teacher. However, as I approached my 2nd retirement in 2017 I largely checked out [...]
Acknowledging Bias
I recently taught a Sunday School lesson about the Good Samaritan story told by Jesus in Luke 10:25-37. Without addressing the whole thing here I just want to mention one of the points from that lesson. We need to be willing to acknowledge our biases and check them out. One assumption from the Samaritan story [...]
Life Update
Now that we're already into June I thought it's about time to fill you in on a life update for me (us). I retired, for the third time, at the end of May. For the past three and a half years I've been working as the Education Manager for the local historical society (Osceola County [...]
2026 Cruise Vacation
Back in January I told you about my son's pneumonia and lung surgery. He has fully recovered now, and one thing I didn't write about was that we had an early January family cruise vacation planned that we ended having to cancel. But thanks to the recommendation of our travel expert (David!!) we had purchased [...]
Life of Paul 34
It's been two months since my last Life of Paul post. When we left off, Paul was in Corinth and had written his letter to the church in Rome (Romans) explaining major theological points and indicating his plans to travel there on his way to Spain. Paul was in Corinth, as you'll recall, on his [...]
The Watchmaker's Pulse 