Collecting My Thoughts

In sorting files, I found this in my genealogy file, source unknown, but the handwriting looks like my father's and I know he visited ce...

The "He gets us" ad. Such a kerfuffle. It amazes me that so much misunderstanding and suspicion can ooze from such a simple messag...

Good Friday morning I only read the hymn in my devotional magazine (Magnificat, v. 24, no.2) for Holy Week, for Good Friday. It was "We...

Baptism and catechism for converts to Christianity in the 4th century. "The candidate for baptism is to present himself before God in t...

I wanted to check a different translation today for the sermon, so I tried to find my old KJV from 1946, which I received for Christmas that...

  Ronald Spire Obituary 2021 - Farrar Funeral Home

If one of my nieces had asked me, "Who has Grandma's prayer covering," I could have honestly told her, "I don't know,...

Earlier in January it occurred to me that I should write something on the 20th anniversary of my mother's death, but the 24th came and w...

I don’t have a scan of the photo, but I would be able to see it if I went to Manchester University (formerly Manchester College) in North Ma...

These may not be the girls about which we heard so much in April 2014, and which were quickly forgotten except by the Church of the Brethren...

Ekklesiyar Yan'uwa a Nigeria (EYN)  is the name of the Church of the Brethren in Nigeria. Their members are being killed, kidnapped, r...

When I was a youngster, the Church of the Brethren in Mt. Morris, IL would host our Nigerian missionaries. Later my high school principal Ev...

I learned today from my niece of the death of Rev. Carl E. Myers, the minister who married us in the Mt. Morris Church of the Brethren in 19...

Last week Pastor John Stozenbach talked about his baptism in the sermon (on baptism), and mentioned the date, and then asked us if we knew t...

September 18, 1995 [This letter from my mother begins with a story of my birth, which was induced with some castor oil so the doctor could g...

It wasn't too long ago, just yesterday as a matter of fact*, that I found out what happened to Uncle Cornelius' grand daughters, Bes...

CBYF is Church of the Brethren Youth Fellowship and I think this photo of the group from the Mt. Morris, IL church is Spring 1954, but I can...

As I've noted several times at this blog and my other blog, I believe churches have compromised their message and mission by taking mone...

A trip to No Man's Land There's a scanned issue of The Gospel Messenger Supplement for Kansas at Brethren Archives . The Gospel Me...

4809 Digging for Danners My Ohio State e-mail account is currently a magnet for spam on gambling and Russian spam. Does everyone get Russia...