Faith, Fiction, Friends

The  story is often told   about how Thomas Jefferson, dissatisfied with the New Testament gospels as they had been handed down over th...

After I Corinthians 15:3-6, 20-26 A phrase: according to the Scriptures, a phrase we might ignore or we’ve seen it so many time...

It’s an invitation to engage with ordinary, simple, familiar things. A painting in an art museum. A young boy building a light-bulb...

He’s best known for writing The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language . ( The Message was so popular that Bono quoted from it at...

This article was first published at The Master’s Artist. Last week , I noted that I had attended a poetry workshop taught by poe...

This article was first published at The Master’s Artist. In 2010, I attended a writer’s conference at Laity Lodge, in the Texas Hil...

The Scripture was reading me, tripping sensibilities flat on their faces, upending understanding, biases, cultural expectations, ...

The first time I heard the term “predestination,” I was sitting in a Sunday School class for teens at a Southern Baptist Church. The teache...