She sits quietly in my office, hands folded nervously, tears streaming silently down her face. Her visit to meet me, a patient...
Al Hsu writes about life, Christianity, suburbia, and living Christianly in the suburbs.
There's not many things more frightening than losing your job. A few years ago my wife was laid off from a job that she had held for 12 years. There was no problem...
What do you want? I’ve grown up in a culture that taught me all I needed to do was figure out what...
I’ve never been a math guy. Numbers scare me in the same way zombies do; both seem so foreign and lack even...
Being a city on a hill for other businesses to see the way God would want us to do business sounds like...
The life and ethic portrayed in the gospels for followers of Jesus has always been counter-cultural. It always will be counter-cultural. And...
The smallest things can make a big difference, says Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project and other books. On a recent...
I’ll confess that there were times in the last 30 years when I probably listened more to Joni than to Jesus.
Today's stories focus on families that are experiencing this season of extended contrition and contemplation that reminds us who God is. Last week, Ed Cyzewski reminded us that Lent brings “an opportunity to...
The most recent of my daughter’s many career incarnations is an astronaut, courtesy of a thirty-second newscast of the most recent space shuttle launch that somehow made it onto our DVR. I would...
I have always thought that parenting is an art form. There are no hard and fast rules. Something that is true in one situation might not be true in another. A reaction that...
Jews and Muslims are well known for their various spiritual disciplines. Judaism is filled with traditions and feasts that keep the body busy. Islam is also a religion filled with daily prayers and...
That Christmas should be a time of joy and peace is a given. That it’s often instead a time of stress and disagreement is also a given. No matter how much we try...
To this day, neither of us can remember how it began. Did I comment on her blog first, or did she comment...
My daughter’s letter to Santa. A little fuzzy, I know, but appropriate since I’m feeling a little fuzzy at the moment myself. The fairy charms and jewels and the Guess Who? game are...
Kelly said, "I don’t doubt that He *can* do something about anything, but to be honest, that thought no longer moves me to prayer. The question for me has become, '*Will* He do...
In high school, I finished second in my graduating class. And while that may seem like an accomplishment, and I was indeed...
My oldest daughter turned 20 this week. If parenting were military service, I could retire with full benefits right now. But as you know, there isn't retirement from parenting. Your role gets...
Frankie kept talking but still refused to look at me, making his words seem more a soliloquy—a prayer, even—than a conversation. ...
