by Teri Ong My “Biographies I” class that meets on Wednesdays has been reading 25 Surprising Marriages by William Petersen. It is a wonderful book about well-known Christian leaders of the past (mostly) and how their marriages helped or hurt their ministries. One story in particular set off my class rather explosively. It was the story of William and Dorothy Carey. In case you don’t know much about them, I will recap briefly. William was a man of humble beginnings, a cobbler by trade, who felt called to India as a missionary. In spite of the fact that he had […]

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My blog post this week is a short fiction story that I wrote for a creative writing class that I am teaching this semester. If I am going to read, critique, and evaluate all sorts of student papers, I want to have the fun of experimenting with the assigned genres myself! Here goes! Scar Tissue by Teri Ong The voice was the thing. Her parents, fine singers themselves, had named her Chantal. And her life had indeed been filled with music and singing. Chantal trained and disciplined her wild gift until it was a ruly and useful companion. In her […]

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