admin | August 19, 2010
To a New Daughter-in-law We are so happy and feel so blessed that the Lord has brought you together with our son. We have watched with great delight as God has accomplished in your lives that miracle of love that is most sweet when it starts with the bond of spirit with spirit, and most [...]
admin | July 16, 2010
<!– @page { margin: 1in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } –> By Teri Ong To my one and only dear, gentle reader! I have not had opportunity to post much in the last three months. Our summer has turned into an “unbelievable” summer. We moved my mother from Minnesota to Colorado this week. Exactly [...]
admin | June 17, 2010
by Teri Ong I am in the process of moving my mother from Minnesota to Colorado. We have spent many hours this week packing her things in the Minnesota house. But since we both understand that sightseeing in Minnesota will be markedly less likely in the future, we decided to devote one day to a [...]
admin | April 12, 2010
By Teri Ong My son Baxter and I were discussing the relative merits of several Christian writers of the past who possessed marked theological quirks. Most of them had picked up on theological quirks that were popular in their own day– perhaps popular only in their day– but quirks, nonetheless. Did their quirks negate the [...]
admin | March 29, 2010
by Teri Ong My “Biographies I” class that meets on Wednesdays has been reading 25 Surprising Marriages by William Petersen. It is a wonderful book about well-known Christian leaders of the past (mostly) and how their marriages helped or hurt their ministries. One story in particular set off my class rather explosively. It was the [...]
admin | March 16, 2010
My blog post this week is a short fiction story that I wrote for a creative writing class that I am teaching this semester. If I am going to read, critique, and evaluate all sorts of student papers, I want to have the fun of experimenting with the assigned genres myself! Here goes! Scar Tissue [...]
admin | February 26, 2010
by Teri Ong I experienced a profound moment of self-realization last Friday. Shock of self-realization might be more accurate. The cause? Photographs– recent photographs– photographs taken by a professional photographer who came with her daughter on our London tour last November. Photographs taken barely three months ago. That means– if you haven’t guessed– that they [...]
admin | February 2, 2010
Counter-cultures by Teri Ong London is certainly a place that is at once multi-cultural and cross-cultural. We met a woman from an eastern European country who had learned English from an American teacher. As a shop keeper in London, she was faced with the difficulty of not only translating her thoughts into English– but even [...]
admin | January 19, 2010
What the Dickens! By Teri Ong While I was in London, President Obama was in Oslo, Norway accepting his Nobel Peace Prize. I was gratified to see that some European protestors were uncharacteristically taking him on for his lack of substance. Sadly, there were no protests when we caved in on the man-made global warming [...]
admin | December 29, 2009
Ye Know Not What Ye Ask! By Teri Ong While we have been away, I am sure that Congress has been working hard on “the health care crisis.” Just before we came over, the Senate had cleared the way for debate on some version of a national health care plan. While we have been in [...]
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