Acknowledged insufficiency

Forty years ago this summer, Nancy and I moved from Austin, Texas, to Fort Wayne, Indiana, and I started teaching “Intro to Public Speaking” at Fort Wayne Bible College.  I had finished my Ph.D. coursework, and had passed my qualifying exams, and was supposed to be figuring out a research question for my dissertation. It took another four years to find that question and write that project.  

During the next eleven years, three children were born, and one child died. We bought our first ho...