Here's a quick quiz: Name the gold medal decathlete in the 2008 Olympics. The name escapes you? That won't surprise Bryan Clay. Bryan can't even tell you where he keeps his medal. His life has...
I start with the usual, the question that invites me into their world. ...
I know a girl who re-uses her zip lock bags. She even has a little baggy drying rack. She saves scraps of...
As we enter Holy week, I am taking stock of my Lenten promises. This is the season that I shine up my servant-heart. I have been practicing humility.
L.L. here, to say "I'm not a rock aficionado."
Note: The picture is of the Quaker meeting house in San Antonio. ...
The last in a series of Lenten meditations... ...
In A Circle of Quiet, Madeleine L’Engle wrote: During the long drag of years before our youngest child went to school, my love for my family and my need to write were in...
They are like stunted shrubs in the desert, with no hope for the future. They will live in the barren wilderness, in an uninhabited salty land. Jeremiah 17:6 Why did Judah find itself...
Ten minutes into my morning commute and I was stopped dead in traffic. It was Monday. The darkness that Daylight Saving Time brought on combined with a steady morning rain made road conditions more...
The Bible-based devotions that I write each day are called “Daily Reflections.” But, in light of Jeremiah 15:16, I wonder if they should be called “Daily Confections,” as in “something delightful...
Johann Sebastian Bach—choirmaster and composer—wrote dozens of cantatas. Each one wove music and mood to present that Sunday’s biblical text for his mostly illiterate congregation. At the bottom ...
L.L. here, with Random Acts of Poetry, musing about streets. Technically, I didn't grow up near one. That's what town and city kids do. I grew up near a road. The road had...
The prophet Jeremiah announced God’s coming judgment to the Israelites for their consistent rejection of God and his ways. Jeremiah knew all too well that the people deserved what was coming their...
As things kept getting worse with the children of Israel, as they persisted in worshiping idols and ignoring justice, God kept on warning them of the consequences of their behavior. If they did not...
". . . aspire to live quietly, to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands." (I Thess. 4:11)"In the...
When I was asked to speak at the Slot Art Festival, I confess to being nervous. Not only would I have to...
As a youngster, Noah Semonoff was easily discouraged. One evening, his father handed him a thin board and a penknife. He told Noah to scratch a line across the width of the board. Noah...
When I picked up Come Be My Light, I discovered a stark honesty that caught me off guard. Mother Teresa was not the woman the world thought we knew. As Shane Claiborne noted...
I teach in a college and have two grown children. I’m aware of God. I know my Redeemer. I praise him in my daily life because I have to—because I know to. Life...
