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What are you willing to invest to see your dream become a reality?

Martin Luther King in his I Have a Dream speech said, “though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream.”  Five years later Martin Luther King paid the ultimate price for his dream when...

Writing a book is on most people's bucket list.

Yet, very few ever see their book completed. Some never get started. Some start but never finish. Either way, the result is the same––it is never checked off their bucket list.

Do you want to write a book?

Do you want to be recognized as...

Writing a book is a journey.

Instead of talking about this journey in vague general terms, I am going to share my personal writing journey with you.

I am doing this because there are some places along my journey you may identify with –– and I hope that if that happens it will be an...

"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." - Jim Elliott

God gives every person––woman, man, child, adult, Christian, non–Christian, atheist, and believer––no matter what your gender, race, nationality or religion––God...

During the crusades, knights were enlisted to fight for the church.

The Knight's Sword
The story is told that before joining a crusade, a knight was required to be baptized. Baptism was a sign of his surrender, commitment, and loyalty to the church.

The knight himself was willing to submit to the...

I think most of us would agree that technology is amoral. There is nothing inherently good or inherently evil within technology. Its morality comes from the way people use it.

I was teaching a class on intercultural differences. We were talking about individual and collective...

First A Story
We took a break. I went to my office for a couple of minutes. When I returned it was obvious the class was dividing into two opposing camps.

They were discussing dogs and cats. The Dominicans/Haitians were presenting their perspective and the Americans were presenting the...

Our culture determines how we understand our world.

Edge of the World

Prince Henry the Navigator lived in the fourteenth century. Wanting to find a sea route to India, he hired a ship in Portugal.  He sent the ship to India, but it soon returned and reported that it had come to the edge of...

Have you ever thought you knew about something –– then when you started looking at it you found out how much you really didn’t know?

Well, the other day someone asked me about the genre of my book.

I answered them with no problem. “It’s non-fiction.”

Then they...