Faith, Fiction, Friends

Years ago, my company hired an expert on bees. Concern had been expressed about one of our product’s effect on bees and bee colony collapse ...

Mildred Ruffner lives in a small town in West Virginia, not far from Charleston. She and a food friend are preparing to open a bed-and-break...

Amy Pinkleberry fears she’s losing her mind. She hears voices, disparaging voices, telling her she can’t make it on her own, that the m...

Let us go to the other side he said,                         just as he was A fishing boat would take him and them across   ...

The crowds are large. Jesus is busy with Kingdom work. He’s talking to people. He’s having yet another “let’s out-teach-the-teacher” se...

What does it mean to be made in the image of God? Consider the word “image.” It suggests a picture, an illustration or drawing, a p...

Laura Boggess at The Wellspring has some kind words to say about my book, Poetry at Work . And she was reading it, and a book of poems ...

I’ve been spending a lot of time reading about and considering the subject of worldviews – what they are, where they come from, and how...

I grew up in the late 1950s and early 1960s in a suburb of New Orleans. I was one of tens of millions of Baby Boomers, that demographic co...

I know the date, time, and place almost exactly. Jan. 26, 1973, about 9 p.m., outside a room in a basement lecture hall at LSU in Bato...

Imagine you’re working for an organization that is trying to decide a course of action. It could be any action – a new product, an executi...

The first book by Charles Dickens that I read was A Tale of Two Cities . Actually, I didn’t read the book. I first read the Classics Ill...

Some of my earliest memories are of my mother reading to me, and reading some of the same things that many, if not most, of us were read –...

I’ve tweeted and posted the links on Facebook, but I wanted to make special note here of two of the reviews that have come in for A Ligh...