There are a lot of things that we use in life that we might not know who created, or produced it. For example, do you know who created the TV? You probably watched some this weekend. It was made by a man named Philo Farnsworth in 1927. Have you ever gotten hurt and used a Band-Aid? Who made that? Earle Dickson in…
Do you remember those “bounce-back” toys when you were a kid, or have you ever seen them? Zoey got one the other day, and hers looks kind of like a clown-decorated bowling pin. Push it down, it springs back up. What did yours look like? Was it a clown, animal, licensed TV-character, or just plain? Was it big or small? These toys…
In Seminary, I had a 10 week class on just Communion. Strangely, for a week of it, we watched the movie Babette’s Feast. Babette’s Feast is about a woman named Babette, who is one of the most talented chefs in Paris. One day authorities kick Babette out of Paris, and she moves to a Danish fishing village. In this village is a small religious community that is…
On June 14, 1981, the Twin Cities was hit by an F-3 Tornado. Wind speeds reached up to 160 miles an hour, and it traveled a total of 15 miles in the Twin Cities metro region. About 83 people were hurt, and tragically, one person was killed. Depending on where you live in the Twin Cities, this famous Tornado has a different…
The other day for bedtime, I grabbed the Veggie Tales Bible from the shelf to read a story to Mia before bed. We hadn’t read this before, and so I looked at the table of contents for a story. I saw the story of Esther and was excited for that because it normally isn’t in a children’s Bible. And so I told…
We live in a world of instant information. In fact, scholars call it, “The Age of Information.” What you used to have to go to the library for, or look up in a book to find, you can now look up instantly in the palm of your hand with a smartphone or tablet. (As an aside, I’ve seen literal card catalogs, but…
For the last six months, I have read about a work of Richard Wurmbrand a month. I find his story and life fascinating. Wurmbrand was a Lutheran pastor in Romania during the communist occupation, and was imprisoned for a total of 14 years. He later founded the organization called The Voice of the Martyrs. In his book, If Prison Walls Could Speak,…