EDITOR'S NOTE: In October 2017 I began a new venture as a synodically authorized minister at Faith Lutheran Church in Wolverton, Minn....

EDITOR'S NOTE: In February 2020 I began a new venture writing a blog for "News and Tech" magazine, an magazine devoted to the newspaper...

Last night my company sponsored a "Family Fun Bingo Night" for the National Newspaper Association Annual Convention, a development for...

EDITOR'S NOTE: In February 2020 I began a new venture writing a blog for "News and Tech" magazine, an magazine devoted to the newspaper...

Look ... I get that no one cares about the opinion of an intern pastor at a small, rural church in flyover land, but I just have to say...

Ok, Ok ... I know what you're thinking. ... He's seriously reviewing a dry biography of a dead theologian who lived some 500 years ago?...

I'm certain that my love affair with the city of Chicago started when I was kid. Growing up in a small, northwestern Minnesota town, I...

My newest musical addiction is a little slice of nirvana for lovers of acoustic, Americana and roots music. ... And I found it by happy...

EDITOR'S NOTE: In February 2020 I began a new venture writing a blog for "News and Tech" magazine, an magazine devoted to the newspaper...

My roots run deep in English, Irish and Welsh ancestry. And while I've never had the opportunity to go visit the isles, and it will be a...

Nowadays, I spend more time listening to books than I do reading them. ... Well, that's not entirely true. I am still reading a lot of...

I am convinced that the absolute best literary genre is the travelogue. Well ... unless it is a travelogue book that is built on a...

EDITOR'S NOTE: In February 2020, I began a new venture writing a blog for "News and Tech" magazine, an magazine devoted to the newspaper...

As a young reporter, more years ago than I care to admit, I used to wrestle with the other young reporters in the Bemidji Pioneer...

On March 6, at Fargo Brewing Company, I got to see one of my former college students who has cast off what the world expects of him and...

"That would be my dream job," I told Shelley as we were deep into National Geographic Channel's six episode series called "Rogue Trip."...

In February, a colleague of mine, Adrian, and I had the chance to represent our start-up media company at one of the largest newspaper...

If you don't mind a side of corn with your action-packed, shoot-'em-up romances, then "The Water Keeper" by Charles Martin should be your...

It's hard to imagine another book that is more "it" right now than "How to Be an Antiracist" by Ibram X. Kendi. And by "it" I'm not being...

EDITOR'S NOTE: In February 2020 I began a new venture writing a blog for "News and Tech" magazine, an magazine devoted to the newspaper...