Adoniram Judson [1788-1850] was born in Malden, Massachusetts, the son of Adoniram Judson, Sr., a Congregational clergyman, and Abigail. Judson was a...
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Thursdays—Thinking Back
Personal & historical events, posted for the 31 Days of Blogging challenge.
Welcome Star
This is a poem I wrote many years ago to use as an insert in Christmas cards. Although a Christmas message may be "seasonal," the "dawn of redeeming grace" is...
Epitaph–April 9, 1865
On April 9.1865 the Civil War ended. In honor of that occasion, here is a piece, written many years ago for my final project in a graduate class on the Civil...
Thank You, Octavia
The seven years (one course per semester) I spent in the M.A. program at the University of North Florida can be counted among the best years of my life....
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Mary Slessor [1848-1915]
Mary Slessor was born December 2, 1848 in Scotland. She was the second of seven children. Her mother was a Christian, who was deeply interested in missions....
Reach Out and Touch Someone
In the late 80’s AT&T launched a popular ad campaign with the slogan Reach Out & Touch Someone. The commercial featured a college student, laboring...
Jungle Gem
Ferdinand and Ina Rosenau arrived as missionaries in the Central African Republic in 1920 to begin a work their children and grandchildren would carry on....
Native Texan Holly Bebernitz moved to Jacksonville, Florida in 1967. After thirty years of teaching speech, English, and history on the secondary and college levels, she retired from classroom teaching to become a full-time grandmother. The change in schedule allowed the time needed to complete the novel she had begun writing in 1998. When Trevorode the Defender was published in March 2013, the author realized the story of the Magnolia Arms was not yet complete.
