The "And from Bill..." Archive

I remember the surprise I felt as I wrote today’s entry six years ago. I had taken a trip to my hometown of Council Bluffs, Iowa, during which I toured some of the sites that were critical...

I have to tell you that for a moment I was disappointed by today’s entry... or perhaps that upon reading this entry I felt disappointed in the column I published in the newsletter we...

Twenty years ago I thought it was pretty cool that we had made it to our tenth anniversary together, or so today’s entry from that era will show. I guess it was the fact that in the then-76...

With the 30th anniversary of my tenure as FCCEM pastor just three weeks away, it would not be a surprise were I to constrain my concluding nostalgia to the decades of my time here. That would not...

Whether the word “cool” is a positive, constructive word is often a function of the user’s generation. Younger folks tend to think more positively of the word than older folks....