by Wayne Fowler | Jun 11, 2023 | NGN
It was a “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” story except that in this real-life adventure, Tim Keller goes to New York to shake things up for the better. He was “perhaps the most gifted communicator of historically orthodox Christian teachings in the country” per The New...
by Wayne Fowler | Jun 4, 2023 | NGN
“Everything happens for a reason” is an inarticulate way to express the providence of God. God doesn’t do evil, but He can take a sequence of events and weave something providential out of it. Here’s an example. This story begins with a noted anthropologist, James...
by Wayne Fowler | May 28, 2023 | NGN
Long before blowing soapy bubbles with a storebought kit, we had dandelions. To this day I cannot say why it was such a childhood delight to pluck the ripe blowball and send the feathered seeds to flight on a silent whistle. To a yard it’s a weed. Its broad leaves and...
by Wayne Fowler | May 21, 2023 | NGN
Ernest Hemingway’s Pulitzer-winning novella, The Old Man and the Sea, is about a Cuban fisherman, a marlin, and sharks. Or it may have been about something entirely different. In 1950 after a 10-year publishing drought, Hemingway released Across the River and into the...
by Wayne Fowler | May 11, 2023 | NGN
Every life runs a certain course, including yours. To have a sense of what that course is and to stick to it is the making of a fulfilled life. This story starts with a lady who lived across from the local high school in Wyckoff, NJ. For years, Dorothea Clapp prayed...
by Wayne Fowler | May 7, 2023 | NGN
The mother rushed to scoop up her toddler who fell on the playground. “You’re OK, I got you!” She brushed off his knees. “Everything will be OK; I promise.” A child wants protection from harmful things beyond his control. He wants a restoration of tranquility and...
