Faith, Fiction, Friends

It awakens him at three in the morning, first with the flash of anxiety edged with panic, then the dark, rainy gray of resignati...

They grow like a fungus attaching themselves with hooked tentacles into work, productivity, creation, innovation, value; toxins po...

I first read David Whyte’s The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America when it was first published ...

Sunrise, curtained date, disappears hero, clay feet promise, broken hope, unrealized honor, denigrated hard work, disregarde...

The sounds of boot steps, marching, pounding in my ears, hundreds, perhaps thousands, locked in unison, thudding on stones, stai...

He watched her. He couldn’t help but watch her. He was dawdling over his coffee and newspaper, killing time before going back to sit by...

It comes from a Latin word that means “of a generation” or “belonging to an age.” And if there ever were a word that belonged to our age,...

Many years ago, I was part of a team of people who worked very closely on a series of projects, mostly of the “crisis” kind. The team le...

In 7 th grade, my English teacher assigned our class to participate in a debate, “Resolved, that foreign aid is good.” Yes, I know, pre...

Autumn: not winter, not yet, the rains of spring, the fires of summer behind, the snows of winter ahead; autumn: the clock slowi...

Disparate patches, forgotten fragments. discarded and left over, folded in a blue box at the back of the closet: Eliza’s dress, Fr...

Only once was it presented only once was it glimpsed dragged beaten and scourged to be ridiculed and abased destroyed. The...

It had been several years since I read Frederick Buechner , the novelist, essayist, minister and theologian. And then I was in a bookstore,...

Little black notebook is waiting her prayer, murmured and spoken her Saviour to hear; words penned to page with the ladies to share,...

One weekend in the mid-1990s, I found myself in the Hoosierdome in Indianapolis. The arena was filled with thousands of other men, all...