http://www.pietisten.org/authors/AdellArvid.htmlen-ushttp://www.pietisten.org/winter0405/holmer.htmlhttp://www.pietisten.org/winter0405/holmer.htmlMy time with Professor Holmer was pretty limited. In the Fall semester of 1967, I took his class Wittgenstein and Religious Language at Yale Divinity School. In 1971, he graciously accepted the invitation of the Philosophy Department at Millikin University (of which I was a member) to offer a series of lectures on “Happiness.” From those two encounters I learned many things, a few which I am sharing as, hopefully, a tribute to an extra-ordinary scholar-teacher.http://www.pietisten.org/winter05/jimwhitefield.htmlhttp://www.pietisten.org/winter05/jimwhitefield.htmlJim Whitefield, 68 years of age, died on July 6th at the University of Minnesota hospital where he had received a stem cell transplant. It had been hoped that the transplant would counter a rare blood disease. We have lost a good friend and Pietisten has lost a faithful subscriber and admirer.http://www.pietisten.org/winter05/stuff.htmlhttp://www.pietisten.org/winter05/stuff.htmlNo Cartesian dualism here. When Jesus heals someone, He heals the whole person— mind, body, spirit, whatever!http://www.pietisten.org/christmas06/brucecarlson.htmlhttp://www.pietisten.org/christmas06/brucecarlson.htmlAlthough I had been informed of Bruce Carlson’s athletic prowess when he was a scholar-athlete at Minnehaha Academy, until two summers ago when this Journal sponsored the First Ivar Wistrom Memorial Golf Championship at Bay Lake, Minnesota, I had never had the opportunity to witness it personally. The two competing threesomes in this event had a distinctive Pietisten flavor. Editor Phil Johnson and frequent contributors Ralph Sturdy and Willie Pearson were matched against then Navigator and Poetry Editor, Bruce Carlson, Poet Laureate Arthur Mampel, and myself, recently appointed Philosophy Editor.http://www.pietisten.org/christmas07/ivar_wistrom.htmlhttp://www.pietisten.org/christmas07/ivar_wistrom.htmlPictured here is the antithesis of the Mets. You are looking at the foursome who completely annihilated the competition to win the Third Annual Wistrom Invitational—by a landslide. As befits the modesty of these champions, the post-tournament banquet was held at the Garrison, Minnesota McDonalds with the incomparably beautiful Lake Mille Lac in the background as a kind of gallery. Three of these players, myself the exception, are the perennial winners of this event and there are murmurings about a possible dynasty in the making. Whatever, we are in perfect concert with spokesman Stengal, “None of us could not have done it by hisself.”