This week is six years since Chuck’s passing. It’s odd to me that April has hit me like a tsunami. During major holidays and special...

I had a bad day. And it snowballed. Sometimes, life is hard. We can thank Disney and Hallmark for convincing us that life isn’t going to...

The Lie I Believed, the Truth I Discovered, and the Gift I Received Growing up in the church, Easter was always my favorite celebration....

I am often asked how you can tell the difference between a genuine follower of Jesus and those who are religious in their thinking, but...

Poor Martha has been berated for decades in modern evangelical studies for women. She is painted as the workaholic who was chastised by...

When I was growing up and when my kids were growing up in the church, we sang a song about a wise man building his house. The little...

Anyone who has been to Sunday School is familiar with the famous words found in the Bible in John 3:16. “For God so loved the world that...

I met Darlene through the university. We began chatting on a school message board, then began having email conversations. Darlene was...

There is no darkness powerful enough to withstand the light. Even in the hands of a small child, a single flame repels and transfigures...

What does it mean to be love when the world around you is trying to be right? What does it look like to express compassion when culture...

Forget religion. Forget the rules of conditional acceptance and the lousy things a religious person said or did and the spiritual leader...

I don’t make a habit of visiting old cemeteries as some do. The cemetery I was looking for was the last place of interest to be...

She lived in a run-down, two-room house on the property next to the house I grew up in. My mother went to visit her regularly and I...