I write to you while looking out onto a lake in southern Indiana, sitting in a cabin where my family vacations every summer. While I’m not a big fan of summer, it’s one of the few times all year the ...
The land is an inheritance. Since mankind first drew breath in Eden, the garden was placed into his care to cultivate and hand on to the next generation. A life on the land unsurprisingly reflects the ...
“Promises, promises…” that’s how the saying goes. It’s intended to tell us that some people make promises but don’t follow through. I’ve done that, and I’ve had that done to me. I’ve made promises ...
That’s the hashtag I saw in an Instagram post by Gretchen Rubin, a New York Times best-selling author of books on happiness and habits. It caught my eye because at my annual physical, my doctor ...
Most of us have heard the quote “Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.” According to Google, that means “what one person finds beautiful, another may not, as the perception of beauty is subjective ...
In the midst of trying to do the right thing, it’s easy to forget to do it in the right way. Outside a US congressman’s office, Christians holding homemade protest signs and clergy dressed in their ...
We prove God’s existence by worshiping him and not by advancing so-called proofs. We have here the liturgical and iconographic argument for the existence of God. We arrive at a solid belief in the ...
Integrating literature and the Christian faith is a task that has concerned Christian readers through the centuries. The arts have always insisted that God’s reality is not limited to the practical, ...
A few weeks ago, my mom came back from a trip to Moab, Utah, bearing gifts: a miniature orange buffalo made of calcite, a flamingo-pink ball cap and a half-dollar-sized hunk of fool’s gold. My family ...