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January 2013

January 08, 2013

Hagel: Right Man for the Job

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) would undoubtedly complain if Jesus Christ himself was singled out by...

January 07, 2013

The Art Factory Ministry

I have not been to Europe since 1957. We left Germany when I was six...

January 05, 2013

A Tupperware Coffin

Mama ordered a $10 plastic urn. The nit-pickiest woman on planet earth - the...

December 2012

December 30, 2012

Getting Mama Ready

In 1966, when we got word of my father’s death, it was my brother’s...

December 28, 2012

A Good Mama is Hard to Lose

Shelby Jean Mayes Spears, 75, died after a brief bout of cancer at her son’s...

December 27, 2012

In Silence

Death is the most decisive moment in human life. It is like our coronation:...

December 25, 2012

And then they partied..

Merry Christmas.

December 24, 2012

The Gift of Christmas

The men are all gathered around the TV. Daughter Shelby is hanging out with friends...

December 22, 2012

I Live with Adam Lanza

Editor's note: The following guest post was written by someone who wanted their privacy protected...

December 21, 2012

Poppies for Sandy Hook

Editor's Note: A year ago, I asked my mother to paint me a picture of...

December 20, 2012

I wish the Mayans were right

For the past four months it has felt like somebody pushed my head underwater into...

December 19, 2012

Friday changed everything

This gun issue is President Obama's Lincoln moment. We are a nation divided ......

December 18, 2012

Shaming God: Embarrassing Evangelicals

Sometimes it is downright embarrassing to be an evangelical. Oh, I'm not the least bit...

December 17, 2012

What Answer Will You Be?

C. S. Lewis -- The Problem of Pain God is both further from us, and...

December 16, 2012

A Prayer for the Fallen

Merton's Prayer MY LORD GOD, I have no idea where I am going. I...

December 15, 2012

The Evil at Sandy Hook

Evil visited this community today, so declared Connecticut Gov. Dan Malloy. Malloy was one of many who...

December 12, 2012

Heaven on Parkchester Drive

There are stacks of books on my mother's dressers, piles of books on her bedside...

December 10, 2012

When I lay dying, read me Flannery

When I am dying do not read to me books of heaven and the people...

December 09, 2012

Suicide & the Code of Silence

"Nobody commits suicide because they want to die - They just want to stop the...

December 08, 2012

First Amendment Family

Raised up in Seattle, he'd grown up comfortable. Not unaware but at least far removed...

December 06, 2012

Faith as a One-Hit Wonder

I'd just filled up the gas tank on my way out of Spokane when I...

December 05, 2012

Sullivan picks winner from a blue hat

This is the time in which we announce our winner for Michael Morris's latest fiction...

December 02, 2012

Celebrating Lillian

I'm writing this from a Starbucks in Columbus, Georgia. I made a very quick...

November 2012

November 29, 2012

Dolly Parton Reads Michael Morris: Book Giveaway

Lucky winners of last week's giveaway should be receiving their books in the mail...

November 28, 2012

Mother Steel & Marlo Thomas

I worry that we have only changed out addictions. Traded in the packs of...

November 27, 2012

The Mystery of Transformation

And do not follow the customs of the present age, but be transformed by the...

November 25, 2012

Photo Scandal at Arlington

Lindsey Stone says she was just joking around when she posed for this photo...

November 24, 2012

Giveaway: Selling Water by the River

Did you get the house decorated for the holidays yet? No. Me neither. I'm hardly...

November 21, 2012

The Red-Lettered Gospel of a Homeless Poet

Seattle’s evening rush hour traffic had finally eased off. An all-day rain had soaked the...

November 20, 2012

Selling Water by the River: Book Giveaway

What does he mean, the Bible as metaphor? Mama asked. Oh. You know, I...

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