A few years ago I took up samurai swordsmanship. It has not been easy, because the sword is not just about cutting stuff. It’s as much about how you move your body. My body doesn’t do Japanese well. When my sensei shows me what I look like to him, he bounces like Tigger and sways...Read More
When I became a Christian in the Fall of ’69 — a lost freshman in college who, despite himself, couldn’t seem to make friends with anybody but Christians — what finally pushed me from non-faith to faith was the realization that I didn’t have the capacity within me to be the kind of person I...Read More