Dean Nelson
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Faith — In plain sight
On confident footing
When my father-in-law was in his final days, before he was moved from the hospital back home under hospice care,…
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Faith — In plain sight
A single red balloon
Picture this: Southern Ohio in the late summer, no air conditioning, sweltering heat, no breeze, and a 2-year-old with half…
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Faith — In plain sight
Living Bethlehem
My friend Don told me about a time during the Christmas season several years ago when he and his wife…
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Faith — In plain sight
Grace at work — even in tragedy
When the National Desk of The New York Times called me several years ago and asked if I could hurry…
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Faith — In plain sight
Feasting on humble pie
Imagine if this had happened to you. It happened in a restaurant in Germany. The restaurant had high tables where…
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Faith — In plain sight
The high calling of selling dresses
A writer I know tells this story of a friend of his who was in a Nordstrom store in a…
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Faith — In plain sight
Tangerines as soul food?
All of us have probably had a meal that we remember for very specific reasons. It might have been for…
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Faith — In plain sight
Making a spiritual splash
There are lots of good reasons to go to church. For you it might be the sermons, the music, the…
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Faith — In plain sight
A wild lesson in pursuit
“Listen!” one of the men hissed. We had been standing around the campfire in northern Minnesota, toward the end of…
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Faith — In plain sight
In pursuit of the whole road
There is a village in the Ivory Coast of Africa that has a custom I’d never heard of until we…