June 2004

Strolling musicians playing familiar American melodies on traditional folk instruments were part of Saturday’s Billy Sunday Festival in Winona Lake. These musicians strolled among the spectators for the 1860s-style baseball game on Tabernacle Field, the former site of the Billy Sunday Tabernacle. 

I’ve heard nobody in the commentary of the Reagan funeral say much about Ronan Tynan, the tenor who sang at the National Cathedral service. Most news reports only say that President Reagan “wanted an operatic singer” to perform at his funeral. In fact, Tynan has an amazing story. Here it is: Tenor Ronan Tynan hails

Kathy Allison of Grace Brethren North American Missions forwards this letter from Grace Brethren Chaplain James Schaefer and asks that Grace Brethren remember to pray for James and other chaplains who serve so gallantly and fearlessly in dangerous situations. Here, as relayed by FGBC Chaplains Endorsing Agent John Schumacher, is a slightly-edited version of James’

Only those of us who have had a close-up encounter with Alzheimer’s Disease can understand the poignancy of what Nancy Reagan has been going through for a decade. My father–a brilliant, godly and wise leader in his community and in the Kittanning, PA Grace Brethren Church–recently died at age 94 after a 10-year decline with

Here’s a piece of the Thomas Hamill hostage story I hadn’t heard before. This is a short excerpt from a piece by Stefan Bos as distributed by the ASSIST News Service. Hamill made clear that at the end God is in control. “I’ve been a Christian all my life, but it’s hard to say exactly