I know Miracle
I already know miracle. L’Engle I came across those words this morning in my readings. I started out reading Miroslav Volf’s A Public Faith. A man I have known for a very long time commented over...
View ArticleA Poetic Conspiracy
So I have this beautiful neice. Taylor. You know a girl is beautiful when she looks like this after a morning of fishing. Like her brothers and her father, Taylor loves to fish. She’s pretty good at...
View ArticleUp to Good
Ann Voskamp wrote a thoughtful piece about perspective. In it she states “God is only up to good work.” That statement has the power to transform our lives, and this world, if only we believed it....
View ArticleRoger Ebert: I will be dead. What happens then?
Before his passing Roger Ebert wrote a lovely goodbye essay, I do not fear death, that ran at SALON. Here’s a glimpse of what he said: I have no desire to live forever. The concept frightens me. I...
View ArticleThe Creative’s Path
Whenever people ask how I became a writer I tell them Vietnam made me a writer. I have met people who don’t get it, the way my identity as a writer, as a person, is so intricately shaped by war. The...
View ArticleA World without God
We hear it all the time. How we’ve moved into a post-Christian era. A time and place where children are growing up far removed from the faiths of generations before them. Imagine, John Lennon said,...
View ArticleHoly & Mesmerizing Fiction
The kindly looking fellow in the light blue shirt pulled me aside moments before my presentation at the library. Your book has made me do a lot of thinking, he said. Oh? I replied. Yes. About...
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