I was recently reminded of one of my favorite books, Jonathan Safran Foer’s soon-to-be-required-reading-for-students, “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.”  In it, 10-year old Oskar loses his father in the attack on 9-11, and is struggling to navigate life without his...

A Noble Request In an oft-quoted passage of scripture (Luke 17), Jesus’ disciples approach Him with a noble request:  “Show us how to increase our faith,” they say.  As far as requests from the disciples are concerned, this one’s pretty...

Karen was a wealth of information.  It was only my second day on the job, and she was exactly the person I wanted to talk to.  She had been the director of KU’s chapter of a national student ministry organization...