24

Julianne Treme, Economics and Finance, University of North Carolina- Wilmington [ April 17, 2009 ] Recently while both of us were attending a conference, my department chair asked if I had ever seen the television show “24.”  I admitted that I had not, and was met...

God is Real

Carol Lim, Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Utah [ April 10, 2009 ] — I was raised as a Christian but it never really sank in.  I understood the “concept” of God, but had no idea of what to do with it. My journey back to God took about...

What My Grandfather Taught Me

Martin Kevorkian, English, University of Texas [April 2, 2009] —My grandfather counseled me before I went away to college: “There will be those who will try to take away your faith.  But they don’t have anything better to offer.”  That advice, taken in the...

An Afternoon Visitor

John Walkup, Professor Emeritus , Electrical  and Computer Engineering, Texas Tech University [March 29, 2009]— One never quite knows when God will schedule a divine appointment.  This has come home to me on many occasions over the years, but never more so than...

The Gift of Grace

Mark Pritchard, Business, Central Washington University [Feb 21, 2009] —“Life is a gift, given in trust – like a child,” Anne Morrow Lindbergh wrote. Every now and then I manage to get back to my alma mater and visit my ‘old’ advisor Dennis at the...

Memento Mori

  Sam Matteson, Physics University of North Texas Dead In Three Months “I am so sorry to let you down, ‘Boss,’ but I will be dead in three months,” Ray, my newly-hired lab director pronounced in my office. “My cancer has returned with a vengeance and my organs are...