Archive for October, 2008
‘The Talk’
Friday, October 31st, 2008When I was growing up in the ’70s, references to “The Talk” among my peers meant one thing — that awkward occasion when your parents chose to educate you about sex. While I remember at least a degree of embarrassment around junior high when my dad sat me down and talked for probably 45 minutes […]
Chapters
Thursday, October 30th, 2008I’m working on a book project these days with a friend. One concept he wants to communicate is the way people experience life as a series of chapters. The book has a biblical foundation, so I was reviewing some of the biblical characters who performed one task at one point in life before taking on […]
Rock of the Aged, Redux
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008I groaned and moaned in one of my earliest Out There posts over a 2007 kidney stone attack Christmas week. If you want the details, you can read them here. But yesterday’s article in the New York Times, “A Rise in Kidney Stones Is Seen in U.S. Children,” had me pondering not only my vulnerability […]
What If?
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008Cary Grant as James Bond? Sean Connery as Gandalf?
Ransom Riggs, writing for CNN.com’s “mental_floss” segment, has listed five major film roles that were turned down by another well-known actor than the one who made the role world famous. Film aficionados can play the what-if game with any number of titles in Hollywood history and postulate […]
Shepherd
Friday, October 17th, 2008Our family takes a patchwork quilt approach to devotions. Jodie and Lindsay usually prefer to follow their own Bible-reading schedules. Lindsay keeps a pretty extensive Bible journal. Connor and I pray together when I put him to bed. I like to read something to Austin one-on-one at bedtime.
Last night I read to him the Twenty-Third […]
Can-do Spirit
Monday, October 13th, 2008I read on CNN.com today about Monica, a young mother who contracted a flesh-eating bacteria strain while giving birth to her daughter. Doctors had to remove Monica’s uterus, ovaries, gall bladder and part of her colon, along with her legs and arms.
But Monica has survived and is determined to be the wife and mother her […]
Beware the Smiling Jackal
Wednesday, October 8th, 2008Our family had a zippy little Datsun 200L when we lived in Nairobi, Kenya, in the late 1970s. Dad drove it like the biblical Jehu. In a nation with few posted speed limits, Dad’s inner Indy 500 champion could break free with no fear of recrimination from the “Rev. Harrup” side of his psyche.
One time […]
Doing OK?
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008“Doing OK?” a friend asked today as we took the elevator back to our offices.
“Not really,” I said.
“Well, that’s honest,” she replied with a considerate smile.
We both knew what we were talking about — the Evangel’s loss of Art Director Matt Key, a friend to many. Matt will be remembered on our Web site and […]
