Author Archives: Stephen Nielsen

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This is this Mount Saint Helen erupting, on May 18, 1980. After I graduated from Northwestern, I very quickly started thinking about Seminary. It was my plan all along to go into some kind of…

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I keep hearing the term “white privilege.” I think some people may be suggesting that rich white people need to do more to help the poor black people, or even to somehow make it so…

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This is the inside of Grace Eden Prairie, what Edina Baptist eventually evolved into. I thoroughly enjoyed my time at Northwestern, and I was fully engaged in my classes. However, on Sundays I always went…

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Though there were, to begin with, somewhat peaceful protests because of the unjustifiable death of George Floyd, it seems apparent now in Minneapolis (and also now in other cities), that outside professional riot groups have…

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Rioters have burnt down many buildings in Minneapolis. Rioters take over Target stores and do much damage. It was so sad to see those few cops badly abuse and kill George Floyd. They all should…

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This is the chapel in Nazareth hall. Besides finding out who my professors were and what my classes were like, I was very interested in what the food was like. I quickly found out that…

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I’m not sure what the technical name is but I’ve always called this flower a Honeysuckle. The actual size of this flower is about one-half inch in diameter. There is so much going on here.…

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This is the Northwestern campus as it looks now. When I went there from 1977-1979, the newer buildings you see in the front weren’t there. After I graduated from Coastal Carolina Community College, it seemed…