Faith, Fiction, Friends

Agatha Christie wrote a slew of short stories. Many featured her celebrated detectives, Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple, and a few inclu...

The Summer 2026 edition of Cultivating Oaks Press is online today, and the theme is “renewing charity.” My new short story, “Decision on the...

I have a new story at Cultivating Oaks Press. Entitled “ The Christmas Solo ,” it’s a tale of a man floundering after a marriage disaster wh...

The winter issue of  Cultivating Oaks Press  is live, and the theme is  renewing gratitude . This issue includes some wonderful essays, arti...

The Seven Crossings – poem by Ulysses Arlen at The Society of Classical Poets.  Dream  – poem by David Whyte.   The Divine Beauty of Imperfe...

The Christmas issue of Cultivating Oaks Press is now online, and I have a short story, “ The Christmas Nobody Wanted .” It includes essays, ...

When I agreed to co-teach a Sunday School class of second graders, I had no idea of what I was going to experience. And it wasn’t the kids. ...

After reading the short story “ Abscond ” by  Abraham Verghese , I was convinced that it was at least partially based on his own life. When ...

The spring issue of Cultivating Oaks Press is online, and I have a short story, entitled “ The Stamp of Generosity ,” included with all the ...

Dr. Nathan Tyler is a mathematics professor who’s planning to attend a mathematics conference in Moscow. The State Department is warning Ame...

The Winter 2025 edition of Cultivating Oaks Press is now online, and  the theme of this issue is kindness . You can read a number of essays ...

Martin Lorensen is a young man who’s been extremely lucky, or he’s extremely guilty. Twice he’s narrowly escaped death – a train wreck and a...

I have a short story in the fall edition of Cultivating Oaks Press. The edition focuses on the theme of “fortitude,” and my story is entitle...

When she’s old enough to leave, Isabel Gibson flees from her family on Brinkley Island. She was 10 when her mother died, and she was so over...

When he looked back on that time, he could see the first days were the easiest, if also the most frightening. And more dangerous days were t...

The summer issue of Cultivating Oaks Press is live online, and the theme is courage. It includes a short story I wrote, " The Unexpecte...

In 2023, Norwegian author  Jon Fosse  received the Nobel Prize for Literature. He’s a novelist, playwright, essayist, and author of children...

A night watchman at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, makes a startling discovery – a young man and woman are asleep in one of the gal...

MLK’s Former Speechwriter: ‘We Are Trying to Save the Soul of America’  – Francesca Block at The Free Press.   The real reason people are fl...

I have a new short story, “Christmas Oranges,” published today at Cultivating Oaks. It’s based on a work-in-progress, tentatively entitled  ...