I’m no painter, but even I find a blank canvas tempting.
Being authentic requires that you know who you are. That’s not easy. All too often our self-image is hopelessly idealized. At other...
So far in Ephesians 2, we've heard plenty of bad news. We used to be dead in our trespasses and sins. We...
We believe your job—whatever it may be—is a high calling from God. For some of our readers, this site may be the...
Editor's note: The following essay is the result of a conversation between photographer and High Calling editor Kelly Sauer and her attorney...
That Was Then “Mama?” I stood in the doorway of her dark bedroom. Light from the hall spilled around me and onto the bed where she lay, asleep, still in her skirt, blouse...
If we take seriously the fact that this world opposes God, should we separate ourselves as much as possible from the world...
I sat quietly, trying to catch my breath as I wiped away tears. As the credits of Les Miserables rolled, my husband...
The Harvard Business Review recently interviewed Whole Food’s CEO John Mackey, who also coauthored Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business. Listen to the interview here.
My husband, sons, and I are huge Pixar fans. We're first in the seats to see their new release each summer, where...
In yesterday's reflection, we saw that we live in hostile territory, in a world whose values and practices lead us away from the God of life and into a life of death. Today...
My mom thought I should become a flight attendant—mostly so she could get discounted travel. But I wasn’t quite tall enough, and...
The English writer, Dorothy Sayers, made an interesting comment about Jesus’s carpentry: ...
The phrase "kitchen cabinet" was originally used in a derogatory sense by critics of President Andrew Jackson's group of intimate advisors. In...
When I was in college, I had some Christian friends who liked to ask me a peculiar question: "How is your walk?" When I first heard this, I quickly figured out that it...
I’ve gotten into the habit of striving to be gender-neutral at work. Nobody told me to do this, it just sort of happened.
Her red eyes and splotchy face told me all I needed to know. Dad, I didn’t make the team.
Suppose you woke up in a hospital bed, unsure of exactly where you were and why. Then, your doctor came in and told you somberly, "You're a lucky person, because, a little while...
I love the look, feel, and smell of books; but I confess, I’ve not read many of the Classics. So I was...
One of my all-time favorite hikes traverses the Mammoth Crest in the High Sierra of California. Though it's a long hike (14 miles if you do the loop version) that requires considerable climbing (2...
