I have been a writer for 28 years, and anyone who creates anything knows the road is paved with doubt. Can I write? Am I a fool to think that I can compete...
Since it began 35 years ago, Harvard University's legendary course on Sigmund Freud and C. S. Lewis...
In the store that sold sleight-of-hand and magic gizmos, my youngest son held both the Amazing Disappearing Rabbits and the Amazing Disappearing Ink. He faced me with wide brown eyes. “Can’t I...
Blaise Pascal wrote something in his book Pensees that has always troubled me: “Men (humans) never delight in doing evil as much as if they can do it for religious reasons.” How chilling. Pascal...
It is right to give thanks for the strength that helps us endure and for the grace that forges holy friendships that sustain us.
A cold Boston breeze rushed as I drove from the airport to a hospital to be with my eighty-year-old mother. One week earlier her life was a simple routine. Then came a heart...
The LORD said, "Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the LORD, for the LORD is about to pass by." ...
Out here in western Iowa where I live, on the eastern emerald cusp of the Great Plains, on some balmy early fall days, it's not hard to believe that we are not where...
“Somehow I can’t believe there are any heights that can’t be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true,” Walt Disney once said. “This special secret can be...
The biggest geek in the senior class is sitting alone in the bustling high school cafeteria. He stares self-consciously at his plate, pushes his food around, counts the minutes until the period is...
Each day we imagine what things could be like, and we are often discouraged when they do not match our dreams.
Listening is difficult because most of us are too busy speaking. God, on the other hand, listens generously to us, and He listens as we rattle on and on. The 20th century Christian...
President Harry Truman loved to tell about the annual Fourth of July picnic he attended growing up in Missouri. Every year, an old Civil War veteran would rise and tell the same battle story. ...
The LORD said to Moses, "Send some men to explore the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites. From each ancestral tribe send one of its leaders."… They came back...
The man who fears is not made perfect in love. (1 John 4:18b NIV) ...
"Ain’t she a beauty?" ...
One of the things I like most about the Bible is the motley and flawed collection of characters that populate its pages...
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God? ...
"This day shall be for you a memorial day, and you shall keep it as a feast to the LORD; throughout your generations you shall observe it as an ordinance for ever. Seven...
“To live above with saints we love, oh won’t that be glory! But to live below with saints we know, well, that’s a different story.” - Anonymous "I love humanity; it's people I...
