By CHUCK OFFENBURGER COOPER, Iowa, April 3, 2018 — Fifty years ago this week, a college pal Mark McCrackin and I spent a night in “a unique moment and place in American history,” as he later wrote of it. We spent that night, April 4, 1968, in the rooms of the Rev. Martin Luther King…
By CHUCK OFFENBURGER COOPER, Iowa, April 3, 2018 – My older brother Tom Offenburger’s three years as press secretary to Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. – 1966-’68, the last three years of King’s life – paralleled my years as a student at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. And that enabled me to have some highly…
By CHUCK OFFENBURGER BOONE, Iowa, March 29, 2018 — It was in this same week in 1994 when, over lunch in downtown Des Moines on a Tuesday, the discussion turned to “has there been some specific place you remember as having a profound spiritual experience?” My great pal Chuck Corwin jumped on it. “Chapel Point up…
By CARLA OFFENBURGER COOPER, Iowa, Feb. 20, 2018 — My cancer journey in 2018 has started off with a whole lot of waiting and a whole lot of fun “busy-ness.” Certainly a day doesn’t go by that I don’t think, pray and worry about the cancer within my abdominal area, liver and lungs, but in…
By CHUCK OFFENBURGER CLYDE, Missouri, Jan. 25, 2018 — Anna Martina Sims Offenburger, my mother, has been dead for nearly 22 years. If she were alive, she’d be turning 111 this week. But on a stop here this past Saturday, I almost felt like I was holding her hand — when she was 13 years…