Faith, Fiction, Friends

It’s fitting that Andy Stanley chose the end The Grace of God with the story of the prodigal son. It’s a familiar story. The young...

We’re reaching the end of Andy Stanley’s The Grace of God , and I’m hitting my first area of disagreement. Well, it’s not exactly...

The very early church had a problem. The “Grecian Jewish” believers perceived that the Hebrew Jewish believers favored their own in ca...

I cannot explain why I was first attracted to what he said, to him. I was walking to the Sanhedrin, when I saw the crowd and stopped...

I’m considering taking on a motto. Remember Levi. Levi is the man we know today as Matthew, the author of the New Testament gos...

We’ve come to a pause in our reading of The Grace of God by Andy Stanley, a pause that covers about 400 years. It’s a period cove...

For those of us who didn’t first learn about Jonah in Sunday School, the story seems scientifically impossible and a proof point that t...

A few years back, I was studying the life of David, one of the most complex, and most humanly real, people in the Bible. His life was ...

In 2010, I attended a writer’s retreat at Laity Lodge in the Hill Country of Texas. I was part of the poetry seminar, led by poet (and ...

If I said the word “law,” what comes to mind? I think courtroom. Litigation. Lawsuit. Rules. Speed traps (we have a notorious one c...

When our oldest had completed his first year of middle school, we decided the time had come to change schools. We had become increasin...

I’ve always loved the story of Joseph in the book of Genesis. And what I love is how he’s not made out to be some saint, but a rather naiv...

The story of Abraham in the Old Testament is one of the most human stories in the bible. Abraham and his wife hear God speaking, a...