Exploring Finland, My Wife’s Homeland             My wife Mari Sorri was born and raised in Finland. I was eager to learn more about her place of birth, its people, its history, and its culture, so we went there soon after we were married in 1982. I knew very little about Finland before meeting Mari, except…

MY BUDDY BRUCE JOHNSTON             When I taught at the College of St. Rose my closest friend there was my fellow philosophy professor, Bruce Johnston. He was what he called an “EX Fundagelical”, which was his way of indicating that he had come from a fundamentalist background and worked his way through Evangelicalism to his…