Faith, Fiction, Friends

Paul Elias is a grandfather with custody of his granddaughter Pearl. Paul also has a problem: he’s dying from cancer, a tumor that’s growing...

At some point while reading  These Nameless Things , the new novel by  Shawn Smucker , I realized I was reading three different but clo...

To quote poet William Wordsworth, the child is father to the man. Cohen Marah is 40-something, unmarried, working with his father i...

Working for a large company had its benefits and disadvantages. Pay and benefits were good; office politics wasn’t. But office politics...

The Edge of Over There   by  Shawn Smucker  is an extraordinary work, and I don’t use “extraordinary” lightly. It is part road trip, pa...

Samuel Chambers is an old man, preparing to attend the funeral of his last friend. He lives alone in the farmhouse he grew up in. He ha...