Pilgrims in the ruins. The image caught me, and years later I am still living with it. Simply said, it captured the challenge of living in a world where we stumble in the ruins, sinners that we are, sinned against that we are. When I read Pilgrim in the Ruins, the biography of Walker Percy,...
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To keep on keeping on. In my dropped-out years, I lived in the Bay Area of California, more often than not hitch-hiking between Palo Alto and Berkeley through the weeks of the year. During the day, and often at night, I was the managing editor of a magazine born of the revolutionary zeal of the...
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As fall falls upon us, for those who follow football there is daily speculation about the Heisman Trophy winner for 2012. Who will it be? A long favorite from Kansas State or Notre Dame, or perhaps an upstart freshman from Texas A & M? I remember years ago reading the back page of Sports Illustrated,...
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