Photo: Dreamstime If we always hold back and try to play it safe, then maybe we aren’t really living.
Last Dance
April 16, 2011 By
Photo: Dreamstime I try my best to avoid funerals. The sadness, the tears, the melancholy music and the overwhelming sense of doom all make death seem awful and permanent
Heaven Is Your Home
April 15, 2011 By
Photo: Stockxpert There’s no place like home! You can fly all over the world, climb mountains, sail across oceans and visit far away places, but when it’s all said and done and you finally walk through your front door, it feels really good to be home! Places help give linear order to our lives. Seeing them validates the truthfulness of stories we may have only heard about from family or friends.
The Unsettling Savior
April 4, 2011 By
Photo: Dreamstime Jesus was radically out of sync with the norm.
Forever Destroyed?
March 30, 2011 By
Photo: Elena Ray In the 1998 movie What Dreams May Come , actor Robin Williams plays a physician who loses his two children in a tragic auto accident. Overcome with grief, he not only has the burden of going on with his life, but struggling to help his wife understand and accept the fact that their children are gone.
What Do You Think?
March 25, 2011 By
Photo: Dreamstime People tend to become what they think they are. Studies validate this, but so do common sense and experience
Waiting to Inhale
March 14, 2011 By
Photo: Dreamstime “Get that—I’m in the shower,” I yell to my husband on a weekend morning. I know it’s probably my father, making a regular morning call. Yet I still have this emotional hangover from my childhood, when early morning or late evening phone calls were perceived as ominous signs of trouble or death
Why I am a Christian
March 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Photo: Dreamstime I’ve tried for two years to figure out why I am a Christian, and have only in the last month started to articulate what binds me to this faith. I am a Christian because of the stories. Other people have their own reasons: My friend Karl insists he’s a Christian because of his confidence in the Bible’s “prophetic word.” Others would say their Christian belief rests on archaeology, a miraculous answer to prayer, or the testimony of a transformed life.
On Being Mute
March 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Photo: Deamstime Thirteen days ago, I lost my voice. At first it was simply croaky, squeaky and scratchy
Who Needs Church?
February 25, 2011 By
Photo: Dave Wicks Church is a really slippery topic. In the minds of some people, the word conjures up visions of the Crusaders, Catholic Europeans who called themselves Christians, ransacking the city of Constantinople which was the center of Greek Orthodox Christians. These same Crusaders went on to ravage many cities throughout Palestine as they tried to restore the land to Christian control. For other people, the word church reminds us of the work of the Booths who set up the Salvation Army, or the work of Mother Teresa in India, or the work of Fernando Stahl whose mission work brought education and political opportunity to the Indians in the Peruvian Andes
