I never knew my grandfather. He died years before I was born. But I do know that Sivert Reese took his time getting married. Grandpa Reese was twenty-eight when he married Marit Risse, recently arrived from Opdal, Norway, on his farm near Irene, South Dakota. I’m not sure if it […]
Herb Reese
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I’ve spent the last sixteen years of my life obeying Isaiah 1:17: “Take up the cause of the fatherless, plead the cause of the widow.” I have done – and am doing – exactly what this passage tells us to do. Over the years, many of you have been following […]
“God’s name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.” Romans 2:24 Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve heard something I’ve never heard before on mainstream broadcast TV: the name “Jesus” used as a curse word…twice. For those of us who are Christians, this brazen willingness to express public […]
Churches have no plan for addressing long term needs “A sniper’s bullet shattered our windshield and instantly killed my husband as he drove our family along a remote highway in Africa. He and I were missionaries, having served in Africa many years,” the woman’s voice on the other end of […]
If you ask people what the book of Genesis is about, most would say it’s about creation. After all, the book’s name, “Genesis,” means “beginning.” But Genesis is not about creation, the current ongoing creation debate notwithstanding. The creation narrative in Genesis occupies only the first two out of a […]
Unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. – Jesus I’ve taken to ordering milk whenever a server at a restaurant shows up with a pretentious wine list. Take the waitress at a restaurant Patti and I visited while on vacation in […]
I know. No one cares whether or not I’m a citizen of Canada and that I have been all my life without knowing it. The point I was making in my last post – a point I thought was perfectly clear – was that it is possible for anyone to […]
I got the shock of my life the other day. I came across a website that said if one of my parents was born in Canada, then I’m automatically a Canadian citizen. After checking Canada’s official website, I discovered that it was indeed true. Turns out, my mother, Marguerite Reese, […]
It takes ten minutes and forty-one seconds to ride the Los Angeles RTD from the corner of Slauson and Keniston to the corner of Manchester and La Brea. At least it did when I was in high school. It also takes ten minutes and forty-one seconds for me to read […]
Over the past couple of years I have done some promotional work on Facebook. Lately I’ve focused on promoting a few posts I’ve written for my blog. One post in particular has received an overwhelming response. Here it is: “It’s Time for America’s Churches to Take Their Financial Responsibilities to […]