Category Archives: biography
The Man Called Cash
My favorite musical artist of all time is Johnny Cash. You will find frequent mention of him on my blog, Linda Kruschke’s Blog. There are only a handful of his songs that I don’t like. Of course, I love all the gospel music he recorded. But I also love everything from Cry, Cry, Cry to [...]
Someday, We Will Wear White
by Robert Murray McCheyne As long as you live in your mortal body, you will be faulty in yourself. It is a soul-ruining error to believe anything else. Oh, if ye would be wise, be often looking beneath the robe of the Redeemer’s righteousness to see your own deformity. It will make you keep faster [...]
There is a Crack in Everything
“Ring the bells that still can ring/Forget your perfect offering/There is a crack in everything/That’s how the light gets in.” –Leonard Cohen, Anthem A crack in everything. As someone who has experienced brokenness in my life, I appreciate the wisdom of these simple words. You see, I am intensely aware of being different then others. [...]
Moonlight’s Moment
Archibald Wright “Moonlight” Graham (November 10 1879 – August 25 1965) was an American professional baseball player who appeared as a right fielder in a single major league game for the New York Giants on June 29, 1905. His story was popularized by “Shoeless Joe,” a novel by W. P. Kinsella, and the subsequent 1989 film, ”Field [...]
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, A Saint for Today
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) is known for his leadership role in the Confessing Church, efforts on behalf of peace and justice, opposition to antisemitism, and writings on theology and ethics that have been influential far beyond his German Lutheran context. He was was hanged by the Nazis on April 6, 1945 in the Flossenburg concentration camp. [...]
Mental Hospital Blues
I must tell the truth. I have been in a hospital for my mental illness. Actually several times. And each time was bitter, but I learned something. They would take me of shoelaces, and belts, and fingernail clippers. Basically, I was stripped of everything, anything that I might use to harm myself. But I was creative, and took [...]