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Doing The Salvation Army the Barnes & Nobles Way
In 2018 a columnist in the New Your Times expressed concerns over the development in Barnes & Nobles, the largest chain of bookstores in the US. He found it ‘depressing to imagine that more than 600 Barnes & Noble stores might si...
She had already made quite an impression on me during the worship service, and now, during the coffee afterwards she approached me for a talk. I hesitate to guess a woman’s age, but she was not, by any stretch of imagination neither young nor middle aged. And yet so full of life and spiritual vitali...
Today is Sunday and I am frustrated. I suppose it shouldn’t be like that, on the Lord’s day, but I can’t help it, I am frustrated, really frustrated.
Before you get all worried (or excited), I am not going to have a rant about this morning’s worship service. While training to become a Salvation Army ...
Yesterday, I went to meet with the King. Well, technically I attended an event where King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands was present, but as I did manage to shake the King’s hand and exchange a few brief words with him, I suppose I honestly can say I did meet him.
The occasion was the open...
Yesterday I found myself in a bar. Well, truth be told, I had consciously walked into the bar, looking for something I could not find anywhere else. My nerves were in shambles and as I sat down at the bar (in the bar) I gave in to the urge for a strong drink. I knew I shouldn’t, and even the bartend...