On a visit to France last week I visited some of the sites of D-Day. More American soldiers died on the first day of that massive invasion than have died in eleven years of war in Afghanistan. Twenty-seven war cemeteries in the region hold the graves of 110,000 dead from both sides, for June 6, … Read more

The publisher of my books in Poland put me in touch with Hanna Pasterny, a young Polish Christian woman blind from birth, who is researching how to help people who are both blind and autistic.  I cannot imagine the sense of isolation someone with both disabilities must feel. Hanna works as an assistant to the … Read more

Gina Welch is a smart, young, citified Jewish writer who grew up in Berkeley, California, and graduated from Yale.  In a desire to know more about evangelicals, whom she kept running into when she moved to Virginia, she decided to attend Jerry Falwell’s Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg.  As a bonus, she thought her … Read more

Last week I had arthroscopic surgery on my left knee to repair two tears in the meniscus, a pad of cartilage-like material that separates the upper leg bones from the lower ones and absorbs some of the force as you walk and run. Thanks to such Colorado activities as mountain climbing, mogul skiing, and trail running … Read more