- "Nintendo
Rocks!" Story for Salon.com,
an online magazine (April 21, 2004). Profiles the Minibosses, a video
game tribute band that plays only songs from the original Nintendo
Entertainment
System games. PDF version here.
- "The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Dad."
Story for Champs/Lexington Kids, a local publication on
youth, sports, and parenting (January 1998). I describe the tense relationship
my non-custodial son and I had in his early teen years, and how we
learned
to appreciate and reach out to each other.
- "Promise Keepers: Is Their Word Really The
Word?" Cover story for Wingspan, a publication of the
mythopoetic men's movement, August-October 1995. Explains the culture
and the underlying tenets of the evangelical Promise Keepers movement
to a non-evangelical readership, and recommends a conciliatory stance.
- "The Spirit Behind Dave Johnson."
Cover story for New Man magazine, Sept/Oct 1994. A look at some
of the key events and people that enabled Olympic decathlete Dave Johnson
to become one of the world's top athletes. Special emphasis is placed
on his faith and on the role of mentors in his growth as a person, an
athlete, and a Christian.
- "Saved
By the Bell." Cover story for Christianity Today,
December 17, 1990. First-person account of ringing the bell for the
Salvation Army on a subzero Saturday before Christmas in the Chicago
Loop. Reprinted by numerous other magazines.
- "The Counterfeit Christianity of the Ku Klux
Klan." Cover story for Christianity Today, April 20,
1984. For this report I traveled to a Klan rally in Alabama, met with
Klan leaders and followers, interviewed local townspeople, talked with
local pastors to determine how much (actually, how little) Christianity
plays a part in this organization that claims most of its followers
are churchgoing believers.
- "Images
of the Invisible Empire: A Day with the Ku Klux Klan."
First-person account of my visit with the Klan for Campus Life
magazine (March 1984). Emphasis on young people's response to this and
other forms of prejudice.
- "The Other Me," cover story for Campus
Life (May/June 1984). A look at what life is like for identical
twins. I interviewed three sets of twins and discovered that their struggle
is the same one we all have — for deep, meaningful relationships
and yet a clear sense of one's individuality as well.
- "Faces of Me," a "prosery"
article for Campus Life that explores the masks we all hide behind
sometimes, and provides suggestions on how to be more authentic as a
person. Article was picked up for use in a devotional book entitled
Faces, published by Tyndale House and later reissued under a
different title by Zondervan.
- "A Silent Conversation," article
for Campus Life (July/August 1983). First-person account of my
visit with a college student who, because of a freak accident, was completely
paralyzed and could only move his eyes.
- Various articles in HIS/U magazine, Today's
Christian Woman, Marriage Partnership, and several news articles
in Christianity Today.
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