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February 3, 2018 by Steven L. Denlinger Leave a Comment

Memoir: Learning to Dance

IN AUGUST 1988, I flew out of Cleveland Hopkins Airport, bound for a year abroad on a Rotary Foundation Scholarship. At 24 years old, I was finishing my BA in English, history and education from a small evangelical Christian college in the … [Read more...] about Memoir: Learning to Dance

Filed Under: How To Tie A Tie Tagged With: Amish-Mennonite, Bible, Black Swan, British, Cleveland-Hopkins Airport, Covent Gardens, Culture shock, dancing, Electric Slide, gasoline, gospels, Irish Catholic, James Joyce, London, Modern Dance, Mr. Player, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Royal Opera House, Stephen Daedalus, Swiss-German Mennonite, Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, Tequila, The World, wine

February 3, 2018 by Steven L. Denlinger Leave a Comment

Thanks for Joining the Journey

Thanks so much for continuing to spread the word about this website.  I encourage you to leave comments here and respond to the posts and podcasts that make you think. The whole concept of this virtual cafe, after all, is to encourage … [Read more...] about Thanks for Joining the Journey

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February 3, 2018 by Steven L. Denlinger Leave a Comment

Dominic Orsini: Discovering the Essence of Faith in Steubenville

I WAS ATTENDING my first football game with Catholic Central High School in Steubenville — a few weeks after being hired.  Shortly before the game began, a new teaching colleague took me to the top of the bleachers to meet two men, one a steelworker … [Read more...] about Dominic Orsini: Discovering the Essence of Faith in Steubenville

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January 17, 2018 by Steven L. Denlinger Leave a Comment

Myrrl Byler: Why High School Teachers Are So Important

WE WERE 15 minutes into the root canal.  The contraption inside my mouth, which isolated my back tooth, made it impossible to speak.  Through a large headphone set, The Killers played in my ear.  A rubber jam held my mouth open. I submitted to all … [Read more...] about Myrrl Byler: Why High School Teachers Are So Important

Filed Under: Soul Teacher Tagged With: Beachy-Amish, bookworm, carpe diem, Conservative Mennonite, Dead Poets Society, Dr. Rachelle Cohen, English, Hartville Christian School, Lincoln Sudbury, Malone University, Myrrl Byler, Nike, Phoenix, Plain Coat, Prussian, Question Box, Robin Williams, root canal, Rotary Foundation Scholarship, Socratic Teaching Method, Stanford Achievement Test, Summer Bible School, The Hardy Boys, The Killers, The Root Canal Whisperer, Western Civilization

December 21, 2017 by Steven L. Denlinger Leave a Comment

The Scent of Fear

IN AMERICA, EVERY normal child has the opportunity to watch television.  It provides news, instructs, entertains.  Often, it babysits. In the 1970s, however — that decade of lame sitcoms, atrocious hairstyles and puke green everything — TV was … [Read more...] about The Scent of Fear

Filed Under: How To Tie A Tie Tagged With: All Creatures Great and Small, Bionic Woman, Brady Bunch, Charlie's Angels, Charybdis, Columbo, Daisy Duke, Earl Denlinger, Little House on the Prairie, Monopoly, Mork & Mindy, Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood, Odysseus, Rook, Scylla, Sesame Street, Six Million Dollar Man, Starsky & Hutch, The Dukes of Hazard, Wonder Woman

December 20, 2017 by Steven L. Denlinger 2 Comments

The Shack: The Dilemma of Evangelical Christianity

MY BROTHER DAVE is a hard-core construction boss, a man who can stand toe-to-toe with any bricklayer, outwork his entire Amish-Mennonite crew, and hustle all day pushing wheelbarrows and slinging block. So I was surprised by the vulnerability he … [Read more...] about The Shack: The Dilemma of Evangelical Christianity

Filed Under: Soul Teacher Tagged With: Amish-Mennonite, Apostle Paul, Benji, creation, Dave Denlinger, El-Roi, freedom, Gerald Mast, Hagar, incarnation, patriarchy, Phyllis Trible, Sexual Abuse, Sister Ruth Emswiler, Tender Love of Jesus, Texts of Terror, The God Who Sees Me, The Shack, Wm Paul Young

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