The Dream Center, Los Angeles, California Five years back when my Concordia University Irvine writing student presented her oral research project on the Dream Center Los Angeles, I was taken aback to hear this expansive facility for several hundred underserved people even existed. As she excitedly described it then, co-founder Matthew Barnett was clearly half-crazy…
The airwaves are alive with the sound of music– laughter and story– as a familiar, melodious voice beckons us to a glorious, imaginary world. You might think you’re hearing Mary Poppins or Queen Clarisse Renaldi in The Princess Diaries, but it’s Dame Julie Andrews in JULIE’S LIBRARY: STORY TIME WITH JULIE. Julie and her daughter…
Tribute to Billy Graham 1918 – 2018 As the world pays tribute to this great but humble man of God, it’s heartening to remember some stories of our family and our connection to His ministry. YOUTH FOR CHRIST ‘40’s In the 1940’s, my Mom Faith Krantz, who was probably in her late teens or early…
My favorite novel is Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, set in Colombia and interjecting human passion into the time when the disease cholera swept the nation. In the novel, the physician Urbino eradicates cholera in the town, involving himself and others in a myriad of love’s forms. While some critics…
One Overcomer; the Other Out for Blood At 44 Women for Orangewood’s scholarship drive in Newport Beach, California, I heard a captivating talk by a former captive. Elizabeth Smart, 31, author of My Story and Where There’s Hope, was kidnapped at age 14 from her idyllic life in Salt Lake City by a deranged man and woman. Controlled…