by Olivia Phillips
I recognize that not every individual has the same level of comfort with death and dying, but we are all called into this space at some point during our lives…
by Matthew Dickerson
Although I’d been with my father for the two-hour neurological examination two weeks earlier, I wasn’t present for the follow-up when the doctors formally announced a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s. I was camping and teaching by a wilderness lake in Alaska, with two fellow instructors and ten students.…
by Monika B. Hilder
What do we love about fairy tales? How do they, along with Narnian…
by John Christopher Frame
Do you enjoy “traveling” through someone else’s stories? Stories that pull you somewhere new—across the country or into a fresh way of seeing things?…
by Betty Spackman
I am from a generation of artists of faith who lived through decades of poor art from the Christian community, and many of us made striving for excellence a necessary priority to change that. Things are different now, but mediocre, thoughtless, and cliché work is still an unacceptable offering and does not show love to our neighbor.…
by Dan Grote
This, my friend, is the REAL story of the REAL Con-Air, as related by a REAL convicted criminal who is, without question, FAKING it as a writer. There’s an old saying here in the penitentiary, “you can be whatever you want to be when you come to prison.”…
by N. Dee
It is not lost on me that mostly Christian nations voted against or abstained from voting on this resolution. Many of these nations happened to be the chief beneficiaries of the transatlantic slave trade and the wealth generated by this trade undergirds the backbone of all of these economies still.…
by Jakob Y. Kim
In a world addicted to efficiency, prayer is a kind of rebellion. It slows the tempo of existence and reclaims time for tenderness.…
by Martha Karas
Storytelling is not merely self-expression; it is ministry. Psalm 147:3 declares, “He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.”…
by Sharon Gallagher
If someone we loved was ill or dying, would we stop feeding and caring for them? No, our care for them would increase.…
by Dwight Watts
The Church has struggled with “technology” and culture for millennia. In the past 500 plus years, the faithful have dealt with the consequences of the printing press,…