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Monday, March 8th, 2010Bill Mauldin, the iconic World War II cartoonist, is being honored with a U.S. postage stamp. I think that’s great news. So does CNN contributor Bob Greene. You can read about the stamp and Greene’s tribute to Mauldin here.
Mauldin shares the stamp with his two best-known creations, Willie and Joe. Mauldin used the bearded, bag-eyed infantrymen […]
Questions
Friday, February 26th, 2010It’s a very quiet day at the Pentecostal Evangel offices. Fridays usually are. It gives me a chance to fill in the holes from the past week and give some thought to next Monday.
A glance at my bulletin board falls on Matt Key’s picture that has hung on my wall for nearly a year and […]
Cold
Friday, January 8th, 2010The bottom’s dropped out here in Springfield. Overnight temperatures are dipping below zero, with significant wind chills. Schools have been closed for two days because of the frigid conditions. The snow is sparse, but I felt like my face went glacial as I shoveled the thin layer […]
The Greatest Generation
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009Tom Brokaw’s 1998 best-seller, The Greatest Generation, looked back to the generation of Americans who came through World War II victoriously. The past few weeks I’ve been reading E.B. Sledge’s With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa (1980, Presidio Press), a first-person narrative of two WWII […]
113 or 13 — It’s in God’s Hands
Friday, September 25th, 2009 Walter Breuning of Great Falls, Mont., turned 113 on Monday. He is the world’s oldest man.
Breuning has many memories of life in early-20th-century America. Kerosene lamps for lighting. Having to walk just about anywhere he needed to go. Simple, frugal meals, sometimes of bread crust when times […]
Blowing Smoke
Monday, September 14th, 2009I ran across an ad for an electronic cigarette today. This device and others like it allow users to “smoke” by inhaling a nicotine-laced vapor. The cigarettes are battery-powered and even have a little orange light on the end to create the glow smokers expect with each inhalation. […]
Chain Reaction
Tuesday, September 8th, 2009
School is in full swing for our family, and Austin’s discovering that third grade is more complicated than he expected. Several tests and a poster project are in the pipeline already, as well as Spanish lessons.
But Lindsay is coming alongside Austin in a big way. She has […]
Mystery Month
Tuesday, September 1st, 2009 So I’m updating my blog, and it dawns on me that an entire month shot by while I wasn’t looking. Here we are in September, and August was a blur.
There was plenty going on. The Assemblies of God held its biennial national conference, General Council, in […]
Fuel Shortage
Monday, July 27th, 2009Australian Craig Alexander won the 2008 Ford Ironman World Championship with a time of 8:17:45. In the equivalent of a day at the office for the rest of us mere mortals, Alexander swam 2.4 miles, biked 112 miles and then ran a […]
The Tooth, the Whole Tooth, and …
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009The Pentecostal Evangel bids farewell to Managing Editor Kirk Noonan next week, so Kirk and I enjoyed a farewell lunch of our own yesterday at a local Indian restaurant. The buffet offered a variety of creatively spiced sauces over some light Basmati rice.
The rice got me to thinking of the following story.
Where the Gem of […]
