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My mother’s father was a coal miner—a hard-drinking man with rough hands who laughed easily and loved children. Mining was hard work, and sometimes dangerous, but it paid a fair wage.
When we think about finishing well, we swerve toward headline events. But what about the less dramatic finishings?
As she enters the final years of her life, writer Jean Fleming reflects on the one choice she has made that changed everything.
She lived for nine days after she last took water. Surely her torturous final days aren’t what we imagine when we think...
Burrowing its way to the light of this particular transition awaits a beautiful new beginning. We can't wait to see what it looks like.
God calls us beyond the status quo. God calls us above mere comfort. God calls us past our hunger for significance, for safety, and for surety. He invites us to live on the...
“What they are missing, really, is a living relationship with God.”
For many people, God's law is proof that he opposes human happiness. People try to run away from God’s Law. What they don't realize is that instead of escaping hardship, they are escaping...
The pursuit of happiness will yield only what the human craves when we drop the pursuit of happiness in favor of the pursuit of God.
Heather Enright writes, "We are wired for eternity. Yet, we chase down all manners of substitutes instead, and become disillusioned and disenchanted...
Instead of pursuing happiness, God wants us to experience something even greater. The Bible calls it joy.
Jennifer Dukes Lee reminds us that Jesus doesn’t despise our happiness. He embraces it. He wants to be invited into our sorrows and our hurts. But he also wants to be invited to...
Our society is consumed with the next trend, chasing all that glitters in hopes it will lead to happiness. But a life...
On a trip to Haiti, Sandra Heska King discovered children who played and sang with abandon--full of joy, despite their circumstances. Later, she wrote about happiness, and what it really means to her.
For writer Monica Sharman, her family's tradition of writing handwritten letters makes her happy--especially when the epistles fly between her sons and their dry-witted great-grandfather.
Paul must have been sitting near an open window as he wrote to the Ephesians. Every word crackles with infinity.
Experiential educator Sam Van Eman takes us into the wilderness for an unlikely story of healing.
Shame is like dandelions in springtime. About the time you think you’ve rid your lawn of them, another pops up with a defiant grin on its face.
Shame is a noun and a verb. Tyler Charles believes kindness might protect us and also heal others from both.
Jazz lovers know about Dave Brubeck; his album Time Out is one of jazz history’s all-time best-sellers. But do they know that his music also earned him an honorary doctorate of sacred theology?
