Dad’s Memorial Service

This last week has been a whirlwind of activity at our house. We delayed having Dad’s memorial service until we could gather the entire family together: Dad’s four children, eleven grandchildren, and thirteen great-grandchildren. Adding all the spouses and other family members, we were a happy clan of about fifty.
It was a minor […]

The “Canyon”, Wednesday

Technically speaking, up until now, we have really been in Marble Canyon. There is a minor dispute over where the “Grand Canyon” really begins, but the easiest marker is where the Little Colorado dumps into the larger Colorado River.

We pulled the rafts up to the canyon wall just below the mouth of the Little Colorado […]

The “Canyon”, Tuesday

I don’t really know what time I woke up Tuesday morning. We were now on “river time”, as Tom called it. All our watches were to be stowed away for the duration of the trip. We would rise with the dawn, go to bed when it got dark, “go boatin’” at eight, lunch at twelve, […]

The “Canyon”, Monday

The road from the Marble Canyon Lodge dropped us 467 feet, the height of Navajo Bridge, down to Lee’s Ferry and water-level. It was here that we met our WWII-vintage rubber rafts and the 46-degree Colorado River, both of which were going to take us from mile zero, as marked on our water-proof river guide […]

The “Canyon”, Sunday

Sunday was the day we first saw the river.

I was excited to start this journey. Twenty-two “scholars” and yours truly had been invited to examine the geological evidence within the Grand Canyon. Did it support the Genesis account of creation and the Great Flood, or did it confirm what almost all of us had been […]

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About

Dr. Del Tackett is president of the Focus on the Family Institute and Senior Vice President to Focus on the Family. He is also the architect and chief spokesperson for Focus on the Family's The Truth Project--a nationwide initiative designed to bring the Christian worldview to the body of Christ.