My kids have been dead for the last three minutes, and off and on for the last ten. I just checked them to be sure. They were where I’d last seen them—splayed out...
This is week three of our book club discussion on The Spirit of Food: 34 Writers on Feasting and Fasting toward God, edited by Leslie Leyland Fields. Join us every Monday morning as...
Open up, ancient gates! Open up, ancient doors, and let the King of glory enter. Who is the King of glory? The LORD of Heaven’s Armies— he is the King of glory. Psalm...
We live in a culture that prizes success and celebrity. These often go hand in hand, one building on the other. Consider, for example, the case of Mark Zuckerberg. Seven years ago, he...
What frustrations does your workplace bring? Can you capture your workplace through photography in order to rethink the negative aspects?
I could have said no. But I have trouble refusing church ladies like Trish. They’re the kind whose persuasive acts make you wonder if arm-twisting is a spiritual gift. They could talk you...
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Jumping up, they mobbed him and forced him to the edge of the hill on which the town was built. They intended...
The whole earth will acknowledge the LORD and return to him. All the families of the nations will bow down before him...
Ethel retired a year early due to her failing eyesight. She can no longer drive or read the newspaper or her mail. So Ethel needs a lot of help. She used to feel...
At the beginning of each calendar year, I like to devote one day's reflection to a discussion of the purpose of the...
Jonathan, a family physician, rarely discusses his faith while at work. Instead, he spends his lunch hour reading his Bible in the...
Do you have any New Year’s resolutions? I ask him, as we head down to the creek. I want to be healthier, he says.
His parents didn’t know what to think. “Son,” his mother said to him, “why have you done this to us? Your father and I have been frantic, searching for you everywhere.” “But why...
