John Calvin has been given a bum rap.  That’s my conclusion as I read through a 2009 biography of Calvin by Herman J. Selderhuis, a professor of church history and polity at the Theological University of Apeldoorn in the Netherlands.

Last Thursday, Linda and I were thinking about what to do for date night.  “Dinner and a movie” can be fun, but it can feel mundane.  We wanted something that would be creative, inexpensive, and conversational.  I found a web site with some ideas that began to percolate.  The result?  A kind of scavenger hunt at [...]

Master story teller
I have always loved stories – hearing them and telling them.  Stories fascinate me because people intrigue me. 
He was a master story teller.  I never personally met him, perhaps the greatest disappointment of my life.  How I would love to have listened to him telling one of his stories! He and I [...]