Curt Brannan teaching Sunday School

This blog has been on hiatus since June of 2020. In the intervening years there have been three or four life-interrupting events, chief among them Curt Brannan’s failing health and death.

I began this blog, not because I thought I had something exceptional to say, but because of my father-in-law, Curt Brannan, and his fervent desire to continue active ministry as he aged. I suggested co-authoring a blog and he was excited.

Decades before, Curt had written a short weekly devotional for his church. The articles were so popular that a family member collected and bound them. Selections from that trove became his contributions to this blog.

At one point Curt told me he could not continue, and it was not long after that his health deteriorated rapidly and, for a time, my wife and I became his caretakers.

During those intervening years, we had the care of my mother who had dementia. I also retired (for the second time). Nancy and I built a new home in Washington State and relocated there in 2022. I can say now that those big life events have settled down.

Though Curt is gone, I intend to restart this blog on a relaxed but regular schedule to simply honor him. He was my friend. He gave me his wonderful daughter. He was a real man, a man’s man.

The eight posts that follow this are about real men I have known, men who loved and humbly served their Lord. Curt is one of them.

Stay tuned.