Double Exposure
It was quite the day when my dad, just home from the war, was able to purchase a Kodak Brownie movie camera. In a previous column I told how royalty visited our hometown in those days. To top it off, my...
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Say It Now
In the autumn of 1860, with war looming, America was in turmoil. Many Wisconsin residents had journeyed to Chicago for a Stephen A. Douglas rally to consider the issues of the day. Just before midnight on September 7, a palatial side-wheel...
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Heaven’s Logic
Some say Christians must kiss their brains goodbye. Really? Haven’t they heard the first and great commandment? “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with ALL YOUR MIND, and with all your...
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Hobnailed Boots & Heaven
For several years I had a free literature table in the university’s student union. My son-in-law Chase and our friend Dom continue the practice each Tuesday from 12 till 2. Those who visit find them winsome and engaging. It’s intended to...
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“There’s a Crown on your Head!”
TV commercials from the 1960s included some by Imperial Margarine. Mom and Dad are gathered with their family around the dinner table. I know, ancient history, right? Mother has purchased a new spread for their bread. Not butter—margarine fit for a king....
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The Book
“Of making many books there is no end,” said the wise man. (Ecclesiastes 12:12) Nobody knows how many books have been published throughout history, but the Library of Congress houses over 32 million titles, and the number keeps growing. Only one, however,...
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Who Wrote The Book Of Life?
In 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick proposed the double helix structure of DNA for which they won the Nobel Prize in 1962. The discovery was based on work by chemist Rosalind Franklin for which she received little credit. But on...
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The Door Marked “Exit”
If there’s one thing we learn from detective novelists, it’s that there are endless ways to shuffle off this mortal coil, as Hamlet would say. But even they would be unwilling to use these stranger-than-fiction departures in their books. On July 25,...
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How Are The Mighty Fallen!
The title gives us King David’s sentiments when he heard Jonathan and Saul had been slain by the Philistines on the slopes of Mount Gilboa. Saul sealed his own fate by his impetuous headlong plunge away from the Lord. Jonathan, on...
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