Category: General
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Churchill, depression, and profound insight
Many look to Winston Churchill as a profoundly insightful leader who guided a nation during some very dark years. He may have even saved a civilization. I find it interesting to explore a little of the man who provided such guidance in such dire times. According to our current American narrative, we might expect Churchill […]
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Incivility on College Campuses
CNN is reporting that Karl Rove was seriously heckled while delivering a speech at the University of Iowa. Members of the crowd apparently mocked him and repeatedly interrupted his speech. Since the university was paying $40,000 to listen to him, one might be tempted to think that these were some seriously expensive interruptions. There is a growing […]
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Glad to be at Wake Forest
A new academic year is poised to begin and I am excited once more to jump into ministry in this place. Last year we ministered alongside almost twenty student leaders to about 130 students in the law school, medical school, and the graduate school of arts & sciences. Thanks be to God. I attended the […]
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Side Note: Hay-on-Wye
Today’s New York Times features a travel piece about the town in which we spent our honeymoon, Hay-On-Wye. It is the site of a famour literary festival that takes place every year at the beginning of May and swells the town’s size from something like 2,000 people to 80,000. Ugh. We were married on May […]
Jeff Gissing 