A child's approach to language can remind us to leave our pride behind when we seek the kingdom.
A family endures a painful situation to discover the enduring beauty of God's grace.
Louise Erdrich's new novel presents fully human characters who struggle to navigate the gray areas of life and find salvation in a contradictory world.
A meditation on the character of a full experience of God's love and a warning against mediocre responses.
Paul Thomas Anderson's most recent film bears his characteristic mark of authenticity revealed through exaggeration.
Wendell Berry's Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition cautions against science as religion and creation as a set of statistics.
What does it mean to "guard our hearts" in the context of dating?
A Christian musician with a professional recording studio wrestles with tough questions as he confronts lyrics and actions in his business dealings that he doesn?t necessarily approve of.
A musician's perspective on how the recognition of failure leads to the realization of grace.
Two lists of beloved things by two sisters who are learning to name the good things in their lives.
A pastor's letter to two beloved members of his congregation who are engaged and living together.
Advice abounds on sex before marriage—why can't we just listen to Mother and Father?
A review of Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem.
An account of overcoming fear of "the other."
A family tree bears more than just skilled contractors.
How can perceptions of beauty change between ages 16 and 26?
Wild, winged creatures manage to teach me who God is.
A gradfather?s death presents a challenge to love more deeply.
A teacher?s assistant ponders what keeps him up all night grading students? papers.
The 9-year-old Empire Records provides something worth emulating.
Who are the gatekeepers of God?s truth?
What the journey to the Promised Land teaches us about God and memory.
An exploration of the nature of loss.
Wouldn't we all love to live in the country of our dreams?
On the stages that occur between the beginning and the present.
How preserving heterosexual privilege in the name of Christ defies the Gospel.
Is there such a thing?
On the language of food, in the everyday and in the feast.
An extended community provides models of friendship.
What do we do in the moments that add up to eternity?