Faith, Fiction, Friends

It’s one of the famous sayings of Jesus, that he tells his disciples about having faith as “a mustard seed.” In   The Fire of Delayed A...

For a long time we had a crabapple at one of the front corners of our house. Small when we planted it, it grew rather large, and welcomed...

It’s one of the mysteries of the Bible, attended by considerable speculation over the centuries. What was the “thorn” that plagued the ...

It’s a conversation at work, one of those idle ones that people have while they sit in a conference room. You’re waiting for a meeting ...

It’s a familiar story. Jesus, with arrest, trial and death imminent, tells his disciples they will shortly be abandoning him. And P...

It was a regime change, those organizational rituals that seem to come around with regular frequency. This one was happening because th...

Which one of the following do you think is the worst? Standing in line at the checkout counter. Waiting for a web page to load ...

The last two weeks, as I read Bob Sorge’s discussion on quietness and confidence i n   The Fire of Delayed Answers , I saw where the d...

In The Fire of Delayed Answers , author Bob Sorge, discusses two camps (or two dominating ideas) of Christian faith, at least as pract...

I have a journal. Actually, I have a whole collection of journals. I started keeping one when a friend gave me a Moleskine journal som...

A small group of us were sitting in a room, assembled to discuss a communications project. The organization had been dealing with explo...