Ever experience the tyranny of the too-familiar? Knowing something so well that you lose the joy of experiencing it for the first...
Perhaps no athlete in the history of modern sport suffered more humiliation than Jackie Robinson of the Brooklyn Dodgers. In 1947 Robinson was called up to become the major leagues’ first African...
Childhood blankets you with a fanfare of natural joys: fantasy travel, handmade toys and books, shared Kool-Aid. Candy cigarettes, necklaces and bracelets . . . endless bike rides, homemade ice...
My grandfather on my mother's side was a pious man, though you had to know him well to see it. He was a Maine farmer with little to say about God, and normally...
I will not marry a minister. ...
“Paul, get here as quickly as possible!” South Florida’s News-Leader—the number one newsroom in the nation— was on the line. San Francisco Giants pitcher Dave Dravecky had just broken his arm...
We tell our children about the people we hope they will become (and indeed hope we are): people of courage and conviction...
Blame it on my New York birth. Blame it on my medical background. But man and woman, I move fast! I remember my tennis coach shaking his head as I returned his volley...
Patty was making her purchases at the register when the cashier began to complain. "Everybody uses us as a punching bag." ...
I hate to admit that it feels ridiculous sometimes to study Jesus for how to live the Christian life. Most of us have heard that “Christian” means “little Christ,” and we all know...
“O Light Supreme, so far beyond the reach ...
Fifteen years ago, Darren Lewis of Dallas had a comet by the tail: from a stellar high school football career, he graduated to a spectacular turn as a record-setting running back at one...
A quick survey of local church signs reveals the usual: “People Who Care” “Where God’s People Gather” “A Light that Shines for God” Ever wonder if the lives of people who are these...
Kara went to El Salvador on a mission trip and fell in love: with the entire village of El Sunza, not just one boy. Kara was only fifteen years old, but she needed...
I began to write when I was 23 because I was lonely. I filled my longing with poetry and the muse. The more I wrote, the greater my purpose to write. I wanted...
When I write, I like to give voice to historical characters that had no chance to speak. I’m interested in the retrieval of words unrecorded. Often I write about Native Americans such as...
After the Great Chicago Fire in 1871, an engineer named William Jenney was commissioned to build a modern 10-story skyscraper. At that time, a tall building required first-floor masonry walls—up...
So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets. Matt 7:12 ...
In 1943, people throughout war-torn Europe frequently walked the railroad tracks picking up refuse scattered in the gravel—rings and watches, articles of clothing; books, letters, diaries;...
We all admire effortless excellence: when musicians, for example, deliver seemingly limitless variations on a familiar song or visual artists show us...
