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John R. Erickson

John R. Erickson

John provides commentary and short fiction to WORLD. His Hank the Cowdog series for children has sold more than 8.5 million copies worldwide, and in addition to publishing 74 books, his work has appeared in news outlets such as The Dallas Morning News. John and his wife, Kris, reside near Perryton, Texas.

Articles by John R. Erickson
Remembering my father

Remembering my father

The man whose job was not to tell you how smart you are—but how smart you aren’t

John R. Erickson | Appreciating the novels of Herman Wouk

They may not fit our culture’s definition of strong, but these wives and mothers gave their strength to the people around them

From politics to theatrics, how a campus courtship began


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A canine’s understanding of physics

Flights of imagination inspired by a small-town church and its congregants

Understanding the medium and the message in Christian writing

The religious views of Norman Thomas, a Presbyterian minister who became the 20th century standard bearer of the Socialist Party

A college student of the 1960s looks back—embarrassingly—at his fascination with the philosopher