By Danny Minton Several years ago, I came across an anonymous post entitled “Everything I Need to Know about Life, I Learned from the Ark.” I’ve since seen it posted numerous times, and the author has some good thoughts. “Everything I need to know about life, I learned from Noah’s Ark.”One – Don’t miss the boat.Two – Remember, we’re all

By Danny Minton This week I am going through all the books I have in the house to make room for another piece of furniture. It was an old dresser at a cheap price. When my wife was through refinishing it, it turned out to be a beautiful piece of cherrywood. We are always looking for deals, and probably over

By Danny Minton I’ve spent all day thinking about what I would like to say in my article this week and have come to the conclusion that I have nothing to say. I do have dozens of stories and illustrations I could choose from, but I couldn’t think of a good way to write them. I thought about speaking about

By Danny Minton AI is the most talked-about concept in the world of knowledge development right now. However, even AI has its limits. I recently decided to test Google’s AI knowledge database. Granted, it’s not the most sophisticated database, but for my needs it served its purpose. I started with the question, “Where did the world come from?” I would

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