Jon and Elise Chadwick, Missionaries to Peru

Jon and Elise Chadwick are missionaries with Kids Alive! in Lima Peru where they work with short-term missions trip teams to show the love of Christ to the impoverished families of Lima. I've known Jon since the days when he was the kid brother of two of my best friends. Now he's all grown up and married (with young Lilia just added to the family) to Elise. The two of them are doing good work in Lima with Kids Alive! At First Baptist Church of Palo we financially support their ministry and have them in our prayers regularly. Check our their blog to find out what they've been up to lately.. http://thechadwickchronicles.com

An Analysis of Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown"

Nathaniel Hawthorne is one of America's great writers. His short story, "Young Goodman Brown" is a powerful analogy about the dangers of leaving our faith behind to dabble in sin. It also speaks to the need to refrain from placing our faith in our fellow Christians rather than in God. This paper is my analysis of how faith is portrayed by Hawthorne in the story.

Young Goodman Brown essay

The Dissenting Opinions in the Roe vs. Wade case

There are few decisions which have shaped America as profoundly for good or evil as the Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court decision. The aftermath of that decision is still causing death and turmoil in our nation and has certainly damaged the Church in America (to the extent that we have become culpable in using abortion to solve our own sexual sins). Because this issue is so important, people should educate themselves so that they understand where we as a nation came from. In that light, the following links are the dissents of justices Rhenquist and White in the Roe case.

 Rhenquist's dissent

 White's dissent

How Creation, the Fall, and Redemption affect human relational intimacy

The Christian Worldview has a lot to say about the world we live in including an explanation of why our relationships are so strained, and what those relationships would have looked like before the Fall, and will look like after the Redemption that God has begun through Christ finds its fulfillment. This paper is a small attempt to discuss those issues in regards to human relationships.

Relational intimacy paper

The Play that Brought us Together

The writing of this play holds a special place in the memory of both Nicole and I. We began writing this play as friends, by the time we finished the play we were in love. The play has been performed at Saranac High School (the first production, with Nicole as Electra, myself as Rock) and also at Pewamo-Westphalia High School (thankfully, we didn't act in this one). It's a story about love forgotten that gets a second chance, and love delayed that finally takes the risk of coming to fruition.

The U.S.S. Platonic script