Category: scripture
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› Read more: On Mountains and Men: Lessons on the Art of Releasing
On Mountains and Men: Lessons on the Art of Releasing
Our family recently took a short trip to the mountains. We booked the cabin, packed the cooler, and planned about…
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› Read more: Auden, Suffering, and the Savior who Sees
Auden, Suffering, and the Savior who Sees
Suffering is strange. It comes upon us seeming to halt our private worlds while the world around continues to turn.…
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› Read more: Brothers Transformed
Brothers Transformed
Our two oldest sons are a whopping fourteen months apart–God’s timing, not our plans. These two are thick as thieves…
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› Read more: On Rubrics & Righteousness
On Rubrics & Righteousness
My boys are solidly in their research paper season, and I am here for it. It will come as no…
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› Read more: When Fiction Strengthens Faith: George Eliot’s Adam Bede
When Fiction Strengthens Faith: George Eliot’s Adam Bede
In a Brit Lit course in college, I read Middlemarch and promptly became a dedicated George Eliot fan. Every year,…
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› Read more: On Sight & Soul : Three Object Lessons from Creation in California
On Sight & Soul : Three Object Lessons from Creation in California
While hanging out with a group of ladies from our church last weekend, a friend asked the question, “What role…
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› Read more: Admitting Ingratitude
Admitting Ingratitude
Just as there are at least two kinds of people when it comes to packing (the all-at-once crowd and the…
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› Read more: The Difference Between Unbelief & Unfaith
The Difference Between Unbelief & Unfaith
During the summer, I sat in a beach chair on a massive soccer field reading something that I have since…
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› Read more: Blade by Blade: Painting the World Blue
Blade by Blade: Painting the World Blue
Red and blue. Progressive and traditional. These words have become battle lines and rallying cries in our alarmingly divided nation.…
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› Read more: Ten Phrases for the Teenage Years
Ten Phrases for the Teenage Years
I pride myself on being prepared. You would laugh at the amount of things I carry in my purse “just…