An Arch and a Cross

One huge, enormous, can’t-miss-it thing I noticed in St. Louis was the Arch. In fact, since it was right by the hotel where the ACFW Conference was held, it was hard not to think about the Arch and what it stands for.

There was a time in our national history when the Mississippi River was as far west as civilization extended. Then brave pioneers on horseback and later in long trains of covered wagons left behind their old lives, crossed the mighty Mississippi River, and ventured into the unkno...