Carl Loewenstine was voted Major League Baseball’s Scout of the Year in 2005, and received a Legends of Scouting award in 2012. In more than four decades of baseball, he
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God made me a scientist before He made me anything else. As long as I can remember I have had the urge to understand even the inexplicable. But He also
We’ve all heard the maxim, “Your starting point always determines your conclusion,” and ordinarily I would wholeheartedly agree. Yet there are exceptions to the rule. In theology and religion, these exceptions are typically referred to
God’s Early Call I am blessed to have been born to parents who loved me and also loved the Lord greatly. Our home was one of daily Scripture reading, prayer,
2015 was the most spectacular year of my life. Something inside of me came alive. Things I never thought I would have time for as a working single mom, things
What would convince a Jesus-loving, hymn-singing, Baptist preacher’s son to become a Catholic? This is a question that many have had for me over the past couple of years, whether
I was born into a Conservative Jewish home. My parents, while not overly “religious,” did their best to follow the Jewish customs and traditions. My mom kept a kosher home
My journey to Rome was a lengthy one, consuming two-thirds of a normal lifetime. I traveled nearly every highway and byway of Methodism, Southern Methodism, United Methodism, and many forms
I was 51 years old, married for 15 years and without children, living on five acres in the woods of Southern Oregon, at the time of Pope John Paul II’s
Acts 8:26-40 RSV: But an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Rise and go toward the south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” This is a
There was never a time in my life when I didn’t want to know God. My earliest memories are of a loving, Christian home involved in a church where we
Flying as copilot on a wide body jet many years ago, I started to descend to a lower altitude when a series of loud bangs shook the aircraft and kicked