By Danny Minton I sat at a table in a meeting this week with five other chaplains. As I surveyed the group, I realized that everyone around me was in their twenties. They were young and just beginning their careers, all single and with a lifetime of experiences and journeys ahead. To them, 9/11, Vietnam, Korea, Kennedy’s assassination, Alan Shepard,

By Danny Minton Ilion Jones writes that “On the great biographer Ida M. Tarbell’s 80th birthday, someone asked her to name the greatest persons she had ever met. She responded, ‘The greatest persons I have ever met are those nobody knows anything about.’ “Once, the New York Times was asked to help a group of club women decide on the

By Danny Minton Winston Churchill called it “the greatest American Battle of the war.” It would be known in history as “The Battle of the Bulge.” The United States would suffer over 100,000 casualties as the cold winter battle drew on from December 16, 1944, to January 25, 1945. It was on Christmas Eve 1944 that three American soldiers and

By Danny Minton Almost everyone who reads this has probably seen the World War II movie, “The Bridge on the River Kwai.” We can’t resist whistling the song that the prisoners whistled together as they marched into the Japanese prisoner of war camp in Kanchanaburi, Thailand. We become close to the characters who live their lives amid day-to-day suffering, toiling

By Danny Minton There’s a little-known song, sung by Vicki Carr over 60 years ago, entitled “The Rose and the Butterfly.” Some of the lyrics are A Rose once asked a butterfly,Oh, why must I wear a thorn?The butterfly flew toward the sky,And the rose was alone and forlorn.Then a bluebird came along,And chirped its happy song.And morning brought,It’s golden dream.The butterfly returned and said,“I hope you’ve learned,”“Nothing’s really

By Danny Minton “I think if you look back (and what better time to look back on a man’s life than on the 100th anniversary of his birth) at the totality of his record and the influence he had on the country and the world, it was really extraordinary and on balance for the good.” biographer Bob Bostock.  So what

By Danny Minton “Train up a child in the way he should go, even when he is old, he will not depart from it.” Proverbs 22:6 (NASB) Do you remember growing up hearing the fairy tale “The Three Wishes,” the story of a woodcutter and his wife who were given three wishes by a fairy for not cutting down a

By Danny Minton “Say, Pooh, why aren’t you busy?” I said.“Because it’s a nice day,” said Pooh.“Yes, but___”“But you could be doing something important,” I said.“I am,” said Pooh.“Oh? Doing What?”“Listening,” he said.“Listening to what?”“To the birds. And that squirrel over there.”“What are they saying?” I asked.“That it’s a nice day,” said Pooh.“But you know that already,” I said.“Yes, but