Martin Luther was one of the primary reformers during the 16th century, issuing his 95 theses in 1517 on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany. Rexanne and I have been there. While on a trip to one of the libraries we work with, this one in Berlin (Open Door Libraries), we took a side trip to Wittenberg and visited the city of Luther. We have a picture we took of the Castle Church i...

It had been a prayer of ours for some time. Thinking of retirement years: what if we could become involved with a mission organization to help in some small way? But what? I wasn’t a preacher; neither of us had mission experience outside a few short-term mission trips. While browsing through the booths at an International Conference on Missions we came to one called Open Door Libraries. We discove...

We live in an odd age. Many who call themselves “Christian” have little or no desire to attend and be active in church. I’m not sure you can find another age in history where this is so true. Why has this happened? There are probably dozens of contributing factors to this dynamic. In generic terms, we are independent Americans and tend to go our individual way. But this tendency goes beyond being ...