The "And from Bill..." Archive

Today’s entry begins with a reference to my parents’ 50th wedding anniversary at the end of March 2003. Poignantly when read now, it then noted that no one could know what awaited my...

Had you told me thirty years ago when I started my FCCEM ministry that one day a collection of my newsletter columns would include consecutive entries whose principal example was cats, I would have...

For the first several decades of my life, I was a dog person. Our first family pet was a dog. My favorite pet of all time was a dog we called Sarge. On the farm in Griswold, Iowa, we had a cat...

One of my favorite Gospels characters is the father of the demon-possessed boy who told Jesus that though he believed, he needed Jesus to help him with his unbelief. For most of my adult life, that...

This archive entry – unfortunately posted one day late – comes from the weeks before the second Gulf War back in 2003, the one inspired by the alleged stockpiles of weapons of mass...