The Grand Designer

Engineering is applied math and science. During my career as a civil engineer, I observed how math and science improved the tools of the trade. Let me borrow from that to address one of mankind’s ultimate questions. My practice area was water hydraulics. Decades ago,...

The Unlikely Rescue

April 29, 1975 was a fateful and chaotic day in Vietnam. Anyone associated with the Americans was frantic to leave Saigon by any means available. The North Vietnamese were about to overrun the city. Major Buang was a South Vietnamese pilot. In a desperate attempt to...

Life-Changing Power

It was the 1950’s, but to this family it might as well have been the 1850’s. They lived in a log house near the swamps of Louisiana. No electricity. No running water. Their food came from subsistence farming, hunting, and fishing. It was common in that time and place...

Fingerprints

Jon Kahn is a singer/songwriter whose star is on the rise. Correlation is not causation, but it’s notable that his rising interest in faith is coincident with his success as an artist. Kahn was not raised in a religious home. As a boy he had profound questions about...

Ten Promises

I step into the dimly lit room. A reverent hush restrains those gathered there. We all have the same objective – to witness the Dead Sea Scrolls on display at the Reagan Presidential Library. The focal point of the display is the Ten Commandments – the oldest...