Staging a Miracle at Tacoma First Presbyterian
I am an alto in the choir of my church, Tacoma First Presbyterian. There are about twenty of us in the choir, and I like to think we sound good, although we are almost all amateur musicians and none of us had to audition for our spot. The choir sings every Sunday for...A New Life, A New Joy: James Drake Connally
Last Thursday night (July 12, 2012) at just a little after 10 o’clock, a beautiful new child named James Drake Connally was born. He is the second child of Patrick and Kim, my eldest son and his wife. I was there at Kim’s left side and watched...Mission Workers Addressing Endemic Sexual Abuse
In my last post I wrote about the tiny Peruvian village church where my son has been helping the people to learn and teach the Bible. In this one I’d like to tell about what two children’s ministries workers were doing there that day.My son Brendan spends...Palm Sunday in the Andes
Holy Week (Semana Santa) is a huge yearly event in South America: holidays from work, street closures, gory parades dramatizing Christ’s suffering, heaped-up sentimentality, sometimes drunkenness. But not everyone joins in the festivities. For many reasons,...
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I am a writer who loves good music and good stories. It’s been my privilege to combine these loves by writing fiction that honors the creation of beauty, even in the bleakest of circumstances, through the creation of music. Writing has also led me to a deep interest in the recent history of central and eastern Europe.
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