I thought about Mary Ainsworth when I read Julia Cameron’s chapter on Roots in The Right to Write this week. ...
I drive with the windows down and the air conditioning on. The sun burns through the windshield but it is not enough to be cool--I must let the breeze ripple my hair, feel...
Harold Sikkema is a recent honors graduate of McMaster University in Ontario, Canada. He met L.L. Barkat...
There is a season for love and birth and death and creativity. You know when the season has come, but you could never have predicted it.
May we "play skillfully" at work, in our communities, as we serve at church, in our families, and in every other facet...
In one of his most loved poems, Robert Frost describes a solitary workman raking a field who comes upon a tuft of flowers spared earlier in the morning by the mower. The discovery...
The nomadic Israelites worshiped God in a tent—of gold, silver, bronze, stone, fine woods, and leathers. To create the tent and its lavish furnishings, God appointed Bezalel—a skilled craftsman...
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Wouldn't it be great if there was a way to create media that kept kids asking the big questions, while it kept...
"Set your seal upon this rebel girl," ...
A Conversation in Two Acts
The poet John Keats thought he was a failure. A trained hospital worker, he still couldn't cure his brother's tuberculosis. After his brother died, Keats diagnosed himself with the same disease....
I envied my friend's job: five times a week he types out a column for a big city newspaper, poking fun at local politicians and red tape . . . and gets paid...
Anne Lamott is a brilliant writer and teacher who tells her students to tackle big jobs "bird by bird" . . . and then she explains. Thirty years ago, when her older brother...
"Amazing grace, how sweet the sound"—so begins one of the world's best-loved hymns. The song-writer's story is also amazing. In the mid-1700s, John Newton was an embittered man and captain of a...
Jacob Davis, a tailor in Reno, had a customer who constantly tore the pockets of his pants. Davis tried a creative solution. He placed rivets on the corners of the pockets—and also at...
(with adaptation of Emil Nolde's Dance around the Golden Calf, has 12 figurines) 2001 installed, app. 12" x 22" x 12" glazed porcelain with gold. For more detail, visit www.gingergeyer.com. Everything was under...
Why are we called to "be fruitful and multiply"?
God sets limits to our work. It's up to us to discern those limits and live within them.
