“If we really knew what it is to be a pastor, we couldn’t endure it,” author, scholar, theology professor and seasoned pastor Victor Shepherd told fellow pastors at a recent luncheon for area clergy on the Greenville University campus.
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True Grit: Navigating the Narrow Way to Umping in the MLB
When Delfin Colon entered the MLB umping system in 2000, and for the next 11 years, it averaged only one vacancy each year.
Quantum Leap: Tiny Dancers and a Portrait of the Physicist As a Young Man
Even as Shuto slogged his way painstakingly through mastery of the English language, his curiosities in other areas soared.
Unstoppable: A Master Class in Staying Sane While Doing More With Less
Santiago “gets” what Jack London “got”—that life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, just playing a poor hand well.
Shoveling Snow With Gordon Lightfoot
The $15 tickets were too much for our “poor as graduate student” budgets. Still, that night held a hidden treasure.
Wheels
Then he flew north, past where the houses ended . . . past the trailer park and the hill someone said was an Indian burial ground, past places he had known only through a car window . . .
“Prophecies Left Unread” – What the Farm Girl Saw
She was first a farmer’s daughter and then a farmer’s wife. But, in the spaces between . . . she was a dreamer and poet.
Army Spec Linder: The man to watch
He had every reason to believe Linder. Linder was older and more experienced in this battle business. He had deployed before . . . He took care.
Mosul: The Story Behind a Picture
The guard towers of the base faded in the distance. No more wire, no more barriers, no more “coalition” close by. Just four gun trucks and the city. The crowded, dirty city.
Dressed For Success
The boy wore the personal combat histories of men he’d met, men he knew — encircling his waist, covering his shoulders and chest, strapped under his chin and bloused at his boot tops.
Morris Sampler 