A squirrel scampers across Main Street and stops in front of the five storey brick edifice that used to be the Grant Hall Hotel. He sees an opening, scampers up the step, but this is not what he is looking for. He reappears, runs a little way toward us and disappears into the next opening. … Continue reading What I Did During My Summer Vacation – Part 1
Author: Bob Goodnough
A “Christian” Tall Tale
NASA Computers have discovered a missing 24 hour period in the distant past that corresponds exactly to the 23 hours and 20 minutes that the sun stood still in Joshua 10:12-13 and the 40 minutes lost in Hezekiah’s day (2 Kings 20:11 and Isaiah 38:8). This account has been circulating since the 1960's, has been … Continue reading A “Christian” Tall Tale
A Heretical View on Higher Education
When I was a school boy, my parents, and the parents of my friends, would tell us, “Stay in school, get a good education, so you won’t have to work as hard as we did.” That was in the 1950’s, our parents had lived through the dirty thirties, the years of the Great Depression and … Continue reading A Heretical View on Higher Education
Changing Times, Changeless God
Do we long for the good old days when life was simpler? Was there really such a time? One of my forefathers left England 375 years ago because the law required him to attend his local parish church, where he found no spiritual sustenance. He crossed the ocean to begin a new life in the … Continue reading Changing Times, Changeless God
Four Kinds of Sin
(The following article is an excerpt from the writings of Menno Simons, a Dutch Anabaptist minister, and dates from 1552 AD.) The Scriptures as I see it speak of different kinds of sin. The first kind is the corrupt, sinful nature, namely, the lust or desire of our flesh contrary to God’s Law, and contrary … Continue reading Four Kinds of Sin
The Hoary Head
“Hello. Is this your mother? May I shake hands with her?” My 95 year old mother and I were sitting in the food court of Midtown Plaza when a young lady, obviously of Asian descent, walked up to our table and asked these questions. I was wary at first, expecting that she was going to … Continue reading The Hoary Head
Learning versus Education
I found the wooden alphabet block with the letter I wanted and added it to the row that was beginning to spell my name — R O B E R T G O O D N . . . I needed one more O. I carefully rotated each of the blocks I had not used, … Continue reading Learning versus Education
Justification by the blood, not sweat
A cartoon in a French-language farm paper forty years ago has remained embedded in my mind. The cartoon showed a row of flowers in a garden. The flowers were tall, with healthy leaves and symmetrically arranged petals. Except for one. This flower was shorter than the others, the stalk was crooked, the leaves rather bedraggled … Continue reading Justification by the blood, not sweat
The Puzzle of Plastic
My wife and I went shopping for groceries the other day and forgot to bring our environmentally correct reusable shopping bags. As a punishment, we had to pay 5¢ each for plastic checkout bags, plus sales tax. These bags are a serious threat to the environment you know. The younger generation probably always remembers to … Continue reading The Puzzle of Plastic
The Foundation of an Enduring Church
“Nothing else is sought in this book but that we, who come last, desire to see the first things and wish to return to them in so far as God enables us. We are like people who have come to a house that has been burnt down and try to find the original foundations. This … Continue reading The Foundation of an Enduring Church
