Posted in Kansas on Monday, 11 February 2008 | No Comments »
The darkening Kansas skies of spring are not always a welcome sight, for they can bring chaos and destruction in the blink of an eye. But when the grey clouds begin to gather, and the dusty wet smell fills the nostrils, a man can welcome the coming rain. The drama of a Kansas thunderstorm, with [...]
Posted in Kansas on Friday, 8 February 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Kansas I know was, and is, a place of light and beauty, of space and expanse, of long, rolling hills and flat, squared wheatfields. It was, and is, a place of vocation and the means to a man’s realization of himself. It was, and is, a place suffused with peace and stillness.
But I must [...]
Posted in Kansas on Friday, 25 January 2008 | 3 Comments »
Kansas is always between. West coast, east coast. North Dakota and Texas. On the way to somewhere else. For non-natives, a place to travel through, but not to stay. It is surely a divine prank that the largest industry in the largest city of the state is aircraft manufacturing. [...]
Posted in Kansas on Wednesday, 31 January 2007 | 1 Comment »
The roads in Kansas, black-top, gravel, dirt, smooth, winding and rutted, can stretch to the horizon and wind and curve around hedgerows out of sight. The roads of northwest Kansas are illusions which make a man believe he can see to the ends of the earth as they unfold in a seeming infinity of straightness. [...]
Posted in Kansas on Wednesday, 10 January 2007 | No Comments »
My home state of Kansas got hammered with some of the same winter blasts that Colorado made the national news with. My hometown city news station (channel 3, KSN) has a series of web pages with pictures of the snow’s impact. One picture, however, stands out to me in a major way. [...]
Posted in Christian Life and Witness, Kansas on Friday, 29 December 2006 | 1 Comment »
Mullins lived for some time in Wichita, where my family lives, and attended Central Christian Church (which belongs to the group of churches I grew up in).
YouTube - Homeless Man: Rich Mullins Part 1 (7:42)
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Posted in Kansas on Wednesday, 5 July 2006 | 1 Comment »
If creation tells of God, as we have on authority it does, then the uncluttered expanse of the Kansas sky tells of the wide expanse of God mercy and the awful power of his love.
I have lived the city life of the third largest metropolitan area in the U.S. for six and a half years [...]
Posted in Kansas on Friday, 26 May 2006 | 2 Comments »
Eighth Day Books, in Wichita, Kansas, my all-time, number-one favorite bookstore on the planet has a new blog: EDB BookBlog.
There are also message boards.
Slather me in butter and call me done. I’m full of joy.
Posted in Kansas on Tuesday, 14 February 2006 | 7 Comments »
When God made Adam he didn’t stop forming man out of the ground. That’s still how he makes men, or in any case, how he made me. When God saves a man, he saves him through humility, which is to say, through the finiteness, the earthiness, that makes a man what he is. God is [...]
Posted in Kansas on Monday, 17 October 2005 | Comments Off
Although not necessarily known for their cantankerousness or rowdiness, Kansans are not to be messed with. Heck, we even require gun ownership in some parts. And it definitely means you can’t dress up like an idiot and try to rob a store, or you will be mocked and ridiculed by old ladies [...]
Posted in Kansas on Tuesday, 7 June 2005 | 3 Comments »
You Know You’re From Kansas When…
You’ve been hit by enough tornados to know there is no such thing as OzA shotgun is your idea of instant messaging.
You learned how to shoot a gun before you learned how to multiply
You’re ready to shoot the next person who asks about Toto & Dorothy
You’ve had classes canceled for [...]
Posted in Kansas, The Fatherhood Chronicles on Tuesday, 6 January 2004 | 2 Comments »
The trip home to see our families has had a profound impact on me, or so it seems as the days following our return to Chicago have unfolded. Perhaps it’s the time of transition already underway with a new year, a new semester, Anna’s soon-to-be-realized embrace of her God-given vocation. Or all of [...]
Posted in Kansas on Wednesday, 26 November 2003 | 5 Comments »
Okay, I absolutely love my home state. I am proud to be a Kansan today!!!
Apparently, the Geuda Springs, Kansas’ gun mandate fits town’s history
The City Council voted 3-2 earlier this month to require heads of households to equip their homes with firearms and ammunition. Violators would be subject to a $10 fine. People who [...]
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