Monthly Archives: February 2010

Innocents Abroad, Reflections on a Pilgrimage to Israel

In 1867, Mark Twain joined a group of religious pilgrims and boarded the Quaker City, a retired Civil War side-wheel steamer with auxiliary sails coming off commissioned duty by the Union Navy in the War Between the States. When the … Continue reading

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Prophet on the Edge

My friend Kyle Childress wrote of the story of what happened when one of his town’s football heroes was drafted and went off to serve his country in Southeast Asia. Kyle remembered him as one of his boyhood idols and … Continue reading

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