From God’s Restaurant to Mars Hill
The sky was as blue as the Aegean Sea when my wife and I left our hotel and hiked off to visit the...
The Greatest Escape
I trudged along a canal in Berlin back in 2011, hoping to see the inside of one of the few...
A Light in Rome
Imagine you are in ancient Rome inside the famous building, the Pantheon, and it is...
Cubs Win! The Crazy 1908 Season
If you were among the millions who watched the dramatic seventh game of the World Series...
Location, Location, Location: Doing Novel Research On-Site
NOTE—An earlier blog, Doing Your Research Right, discussed my research habits when writing...
The Artist Every Christian Should Know
Most people have heard of Michelangelo, Leonardo, Donatello, and Raphael, although some primarily...
Audrey Hepburn Versus the Nazis
The teenage girl entered the forest on what appeared to be an ordinary stroll, stopping to...
Why Herod the Great Was Not So Great
With the Olympic games of 2016 still fresh in my memory, I was surprised to learn recently that...
The Amazing Story of John Newton
Amazing grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me. I once was lost, but now am...