Faith, Fiction, Friends

After Zephaniah 3:14-20   Forget the humiliation, forget the shame. The Lord is singing over you.   He takes away the judgments against you....

The entire  spring issue of Cultivating Oaks  is devoted to the theme of grace. Published are stories by Lancia Smith, Malcolm Guite, Annie ...

After Matthew 5:38-42   Everyday practices refuted, revoked, redrawn, recast. They are (in order): first, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a t...

After Matthew 5:38-42   He sits on that hill, speaking softly, firmly, as one with authority because he is One with authority. He speaks of ...

Tom Schneider’s life is a mess. His wife Julie has left him, taking their 4-year-old daughter Kayla and moved in with her mother. He’s ...

After Ephesians 1:7-12 We are contained within him, the blood shed and flowing around us; it is the blood alone that is the...

An apology that begins with if is no apology. But does it merit forgiveness? Photograph by Mau...