Faith, Fiction, Friends

My knowledge of church history was spotty – at best – for a very long time. My grade school and undergraduate education was almost entirely ...

After Ephesians 1:1-14 It was a plan, it is a plan for the fullness of time. Envisioned and created before time, it had a...

After Romans 8:31-39 Hearing the call, and responding to the call, they gathered together. And once gathered, nothing could...

After Romans 8:31-39 It’s over and done, this battle, this war, it’s over and done before it even begins. The forces are ar...

After Romans 8:26-30 There’s a process involved, even if we think it’s all spontaneity. It begins with weakness, ours; weak...

After Romans 8:12-25 We groan within, a racking of the soul,  a piercing of the heart, a stifled scream, for what we know i...

After Romans 8:12-25 What we have now cannot be compared to what is to come. From its deepest soul, creation groans in an...

After Romans 8:12-25 A child, abandoned, alone, is found and touched, claimed, adopted to become a son, a son who cries f...

After Romans 8:1-11 We’re set free from the law, the law of death, to embrace the law of life, the spirit of life, We’r...

After Romans 7:7-25 A war rages. On one side: what it is we’re supposed to do, to believe. On the other: what our heart...

After Romans 6:1-14 The old is gone, not merely cast aside, but taken, a violent act, and nailed to a tree of all things,...

After Genesis 3:17-15 and I John 3:1-10 We were works of before, changed, in a moment, into works of now. We were fields of...

After Romans 5:12-21 There’s a kind of symmetry to it all, that sin was transmitted through one man, one act bringing c...

After Romans 5:12-21 Genetics are, or can be, destiny, giving us height and hair color, eye color, skin color, ear size, fo...

After Romans 8:26-28 A well of darkness, cold, the only company a shaking, shivering. The voice rises through the stones, w...

Jim Burnett has written a considerable number of novels set in the Old West, and now he’s published a collection of short stories, also...

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 ...