Archive for May, 2010
Saint Nicholas
Monday, May 24th, 2010Buswell Library is certainly familiar to staff and students of Wheaton College, but it is relatively unknown that the structure to which it is attached was originally called the Nicholas Building, until expanded in the late 1970s. A portrait and a plaque, until removal in 2006, commemorated the contributions of a man named Robert E. [...]
Bigs ideas from a little man
Wednesday, May 19th, 2010Though short in stature, Francis Schaeffer has been known worldwide for his big ideas and the L’Abri retreat center established along with his wife, Edith. Francis and Edith Schaeffer’s life and ministry were about communicating ideas, particularly ideas as they related to knowing God more fully and living in harmony with God. Hundreds of individuals [...]
Change of Heart
Monday, May 17th, 2010“Although I am an older person,” begins Doris Dresselhaus Menzies in her memoir, Young At Heart (2007), “I have a much younger heart.” She explains her cryptic remark as the story unfolds. Born in Decorah, Iowa, in 1932, Doris lived peacefully with her family and worked hard on the farm. At age nine she fully [...]
Onomasticon arthurianum
Monday, May 10th, 2010Alma Blount was born in Byron, Illinois on November 29, 1866. She attended local schools and graduated from Byron High School in 1882. Afterward she studied at Wheaton College where she stayed on as an instructor of English after her graduation in 1886. While teaching she continued to take classes and earned a second bachelors [...]
May the Mind of Christ My Savior
Monday, May 3rd, 2010Dr. Hudson T. Armerding’s A Word to the Wise (Tyndale 1980) was published to bring wisdom and encouragement to fellow Christians everywhere. In the following excerpt he shares some of the wisdom gathered over fifteen years as college president: Singing hymns together has long been traditional for both congregation and graduates at the annual Baccalaureate [...]