Nov 3, 2014 | Blog
Helen Cooper is a writer for the New York Times. Her coverage of the Ebola crisis is unique because she was born in Liberia and she still has family living there. Having immigrated to the United States, she escaped many of the civil war’s atrocities which...
Sep 28, 2014 | Blog
A friend recently asked me, “Did God ever wonder where he or she came from?” Wow! That’s not your everyday question and it required a lot of thought, like a math problem. Strangely, my mind raced back to geometry class and discussions about lines and...
Sep 9, 2014 | Blog
On September 10, 2001, First Officer Steve Scheibner sat down at his computer to check the American Airline flight log to see if there were any unassigned flights for the next day. As a twenty-year pilot of American, Steve was following his normal routine. The flight...
Sep 6, 2014 | Blog
During my first trip to Liberia in 1995, Olu Menjay and I visited Ricks Institute. It was closed because of the war, but the United Nations had a refugee camp on the campus of the Baptist school with 20,000 people. The people in the camp had been displaced from their...
Sep 1, 2014 | Blog
Larry Stanton and his wife Rebecca are stateside, but it is not by choice. Ebola is keeping them from returning to Liberia where they have made a four-year commitment as missionaries. Rebecca is working with teachers at Ricks Institute in Virginia, Liberia, to help...
Aug 27, 2014 | Blog
One thing all pages of books and printed documents have in common is the use of margins. Have you ever wondered, “Why have margins? Couldn’t you get more words on the pages with them?” Just think of how many pages you could cut out of a book. I...
