The Rooftop Blog- Of note. Oct. 4, 2017 October 4, 2017highs & lows observed It is homecoming week at Aurora Christian School, where Diana is a freshman, but their world has been upended by a tragic home going. Two students were in a head-on accident returning from a golf tournament … Continue reading →
- Of note. Oct. 3, 2017 October 3, 2017Highs and Lows Observed We learn and teach that you should never give up, and that if you fail, pull yourself up and try again. In my life that axiom came up hard against…plumbing. After trying to fix a leak … Continue reading →
- Of Note, Oct. 2, 2017 October 3, 2017Highs and Lows Observed The Las Vegas shooting was such base, mind-blowing, and as yet unexplained, barbarity. Not that there can be an explanation for such horrid evil. What deep sadness. We speak often of God’s love, for good … Continue reading →
- Ernie Payton: The Music Will Never Die May 1, 2017You didn’t have to spend much time with Debbie’s Dad, Lt. Col Ernest Payton (The Salvation Army), to know that his life revolved around music. Whether it was following, along with Joan, the riffs of a Big Band song on … Continue reading →
- Eulogy for my mother September 18, 2016Harriet Louise (Speer) Jewell (January 26, 1927-September 11, 2016) We celebrate through tears the crescendo of a long goodbye We gather here to celebrate our mother, grandmother, great grandmother, friend; and for the crescendo of a long goodbye. We’ve … Continue reading →
- Can 4 weeks change the trajectory of a life? October 12, 2015It’s great to discover an opportunity to make what may be a lasting difference in the life of a person who really needs to catch a break. We’ve found one, and we’d like to share it with you. Through an … Continue reading →
- Abraham Lincoln’s 2nd inaugural address: 150 years ago March 4, 2015March 4, 1865 Fellow-Countrymen: At this second appearing to take the oath of the Presidential office there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first. Then a statement somewhat in detail of a course to … Continue reading →
- Resurrection and Grief February 4, 2015My friend and colleague, Chuck, is with his family this week, gathered to bring ease–as best they can—as granddaughter Olivia slips from this life. A Trisomy18 baby, Olivia was born to live in this world briefly, a month-long, difficult prelude … Continue reading →
- Protecting Marriage: Ironic promotional language for a session at the forthcoming NRB Convention January 30, 2015The headline of a promotional email for a session at the National Religious Broadcasters convention reads: “Protecting Marriage: How to Get the Media Message Right for This Generation.” So how can we explain Protecting Marriage to this generation? (By which … Continue reading →
- On Veterans Day: Memorabilia from My Father, the WWII Veteran November 11, 2014My father was a World War II veteran. Veterans of these battlefields of the last century are now bowed men in their eighties and nineties speaking hesitantly about their colleagues and their service a lifetime ago in the killing fields … Continue reading →
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Category Archives: Contributors
Of note. Oct. 4, 2017
highs & lows observed It is homecoming week at Aurora Christian School, where Diana is a freshman, but their world has been upended by a tragic home going. Two students were in a head-on accident returning from a golf tournament … Continue reading
Of note. Oct. 3, 2017
Highs and Lows Observed We learn and teach that you should never give up, and that if you fail, pull yourself up and try again. In my life that axiom came up hard against…plumbing. After trying to fix a leak … Continue reading
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Tagged better angels, Las Vegas massacre, plumbing
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Of Note, Oct. 2, 2017
Highs and Lows Observed The Las Vegas shooting was such base, mind-blowing, and as yet unexplained, barbarity. Not that there can be an explanation for such horrid evil. What deep sadness. We speak often of God’s love, for good … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball, Christianity, Contributors, Criminal justice, Family, Jim Jewell, Pro-life, Sports, Uncategorized
Tagged abortion, Chicago Cubs, Christmas tree, mass murder
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Ernie Payton: The Music Will Never Die
You didn’t have to spend much time with Debbie’s Dad, Lt. Col Ernest Payton (The Salvation Army), to know that his life revolved around music. Whether it was following, along with Joan, the riffs of a Big Band song on … Continue reading
Eulogy for my mother
Harriet Louise (Speer) Jewell (January 26, 1927-September 11, 2016) We celebrate through tears the crescendo of a long goodbye We gather here to celebrate our mother, grandmother, great grandmother, friend; and for the crescendo of a long goodbye. We’ve … Continue reading
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Protecting Marriage: Ironic promotional language for a session at the forthcoming NRB Convention
The headline of a promotional email for a session at the National Religious Broadcasters convention reads: “Protecting Marriage: How to Get the Media Message Right for This Generation.” So how can we explain Protecting Marriage to this generation? (By which … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Family, Homosexual Issues, Jim Jewell, marriage, Politics
Tagged Jerry Johnson, NRB, protecting marriage, same-sex marriage
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On Veterans Day: Memorabilia from My Father, the WWII Veteran
My father was a World War II veteran. Veterans of these battlefields of the last century are now bowed men in their eighties and nineties speaking hesitantly about their colleagues and their service a lifetime ago in the killing fields … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Family, Holidays, Jim Jewell, War and Peace
Tagged family, Veterans Day
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Brett Walls’ Magnificent Journey against Locked In Syndrome and United Health Care Paralysis
CHICAGO — Two blocks east of Chicago’s posh Magnificent Mile on Michigan Avenue, in the shadow of the spectacular John Hancock skyscraper, sits the world’s leading hospital and research enterprise in physical medicine and rehabilitation, the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Family, Jim Jewell, Virtue
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A Milestone Birthday for Debbie Jewell: Celebrating a Life Well Started
When you reach milestones that begin with crooked numbers, it is common to reflect on years gone by and their results. Today we’re celebrating the milestone birthday of a remarkable woman whose 50 years have been time well-spent. Debra Elizabeth … Continue reading
Autopsy Abuse Gets Personal
When race car driver Kevin Ward Jr. was run over and killed by NASCAR star Tony Stewart on a track in upstate NY Saturday, we saw self-destructive machismo at its worst. Many think Steward didn’t try very hard to stay clear … Continue reading
Posted in Communications, Family, Jim Jewell, News media
Tagged autopsy, journalistic ethics
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