Tag: god

• Welcome to Torg Stories!

  Torg Stories books, films, basketball player development, and podcasts.

  William Torgerson

  April 1, 2016

  Torg Life

  80s, basketball, Bill Torgerson, college, composition, documentary, education, English, fiction, Flannery O’Connor, god, Horseshoe, Indiana, Love on the Big Screen, New York, St. John’s University, William Torgerson, Winamac, writing

• Does God Change Lives?

  If you asked me point blank whether or not if in the history of creation God had ever answered a prayer and changed a life, I’d say yes. Pin me down for some evidence or an example, what then? Do I go with Jonah’s cry of distress from inside the belly of the whale (how…

  William Torgerson

  August 25, 2013

  podcast

  Christ, cocaine, god, podcast, prayer, prison, testimony, Torg Stories

• Fern Remembers Stealing the US Marshal Airplane

  As a part of hearing my friend Fern’s testimony, in this podcast episode he remembers the night he stole a U.S. Marshal airplane.  This is a point in Fern’s story that he has come to think of as a sort of flight to redemption, a night which eventually took Fern to prison where he began…

  William Torgerson

  August 19, 2013

  People and Their Stories, podcast, testimony

  cartel, cocaine, Colombia, god, podcast, prayer, prison, testimony

• Second Chances after Prison

  This is the fifth podcast in a series in which I ask Fern to give his testimony. We are working on the manuscript of a book. One of the titles we have thrown around goes something like this… Flight to Redemption: A Story of Cocaine, Prison, and a New Life Through Christ. Fern discusses what…

  William Torgerson

  August 13, 2013

  testimony

  Christ, church, cocaine, god, prayer, testimony

• An Honest Prayer: Fern is Released from Prison

  In the latest Torg Stories podcasts, we’ve been talking with Fernando Fernandez about his life. This includes time involved with running cocaine, stealing a US Marshal airplane, arrest in Cuba, and a prison conversation to Christianity.   http://html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/2401943/height/325/width/325/theme/legacy/direction/no/autoplay/no/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/preload/no/no_addthis/no/ In this episode, Fern finishes his 12-year sentence in Terre Haute and Peoria. He talks about his…

  William Torgerson

  July 31, 2013

  testimony

  Christ, church, cocaine, god, prayer, prison, testimony