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A classic movie with timeless message | Greg Asimakoupoulos
Last month was Breast Cancer Awareness Month. But for the last 25 years or so, October has also…
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Picturing contentment: Life lessons from the original Facebook | Greg Asimakoupoulos
The other day I came across my student pictorial directory from Fuller Seminary. Of course, I looked for…
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For Mariners fans, there actually is crying in baseball | Greg Asimakoupoulos
There’s a line in the movie “A League of Their Own” where Tom Hanks’ character says, “There’s no…
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The silver lining of national sorrow | Greg Asimakoupoulos
Where were you when you were told that Pearl Harbor had been bombed? What were you doing when…
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A voice of encouragement still rings in my head | Greg Asimakoupoulos
Three months before I began my freshman year at Seattle Pacific University in the fall of 1970, I…
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An invitation to paint rocks and learn by example | Greg Asimakoupoulos
During the height of COVID, quarantined artists in my community found a creative expression for their talent. They…
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Consider the ‘home row of freedom’ on Independence Day | Greg Asimakoupoulos
I’ve had a fascination with typewriters since I was 3 years old. I used to sit at my…
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Turning 70 represents a graduation worthy of celebrating | Greg Asimakoupoulos
Two years ago, our 50 year class reunion was canceled due to Covid. But lockdowns and social distancing…
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Anniversaries are an invitation to mark time | Greg Asimakoupoulos
It was a cool overcast May morning in 1982. A thirty-year-old pastor stood at the front of the…
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Arbor Day: The rest of the story | Greg Asimakoupoulos
Johnny Cash used to sing about “A Boy Named Sue,” but one of Chicagoland’s most celebrated citizens was…
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Seventy things I’ve learned in 70 years | Greg Asimakoupoulos
This past weekend was not only Easter Sunday, filled with a weekend of meaningful commitments, it included a…