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May 2014

May 30, 2014

A Soul Void

Let’s get something clear, okay? Hatred is not a mental illness. It is a soul...

May 20, 2014

Running on Empty

I had a dentist appointment in Tri-Cities yesterday afternoon. It was one of those appointments...

April 2014

April 24, 2014

Body Bag memory

A prayer of David If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I...

March 2014

March 27, 2014

Starve a Child, Save a Gay

I was in Nashville when the text message arrived: "Have you kept up with what's...

March 21, 2014

Fred Phelps: Life of Fear

I'm not proud of it but there have been people I have hated in my...

January 2014

January 26, 2014

Evangelical Hocus-Pocus

I was slain in the spirit once. Splayed out. Laid flat. Old-fashioned revival time...

December 2013

December 31, 2013

Resolutions of a Misremembered Life

She bought the buffet from a man who lived in that same prison town...

December 19, 2013

A World without God

We hear it all the time. How we've moved into a post-Christian era. A time...

October 2013

October 16, 2013

When the gift isn’t good enough

"God, you are the slim crescent of a moon that I see and my self...

September 2013

September 11, 2013

Remembering 9-11 with Miss Lillian

Lillian revisiting her memories of Marjorie I stopped by to see my friend Lillian...

September 10, 2013

A Ministry Born of Pain

It's Miz Shelby here again. I'm guest posting today from Guatemala City, where I'm...

August 2013

August 31, 2013

Are You Jealous?

The writer sitting next to me at dinner wanted to know -- was it going...

August 29, 2013

The Trinity of Unemployment, Addiction & Depression

Editor's Note: When I wrote about the Biscuit Outlaw and shared that post,...

August 26, 2013

The Biscuit & Black Coffee Outlaw

Sunday morning started with four cups of flour and Mama's biscuit-cutter. There are two things...

August 22, 2013

The Believer’s Serenity Prayer

God grant me this thing I ask Help me to change the things...

July 2013

July 23, 2013

Poverty of a different sort

Never once when I was growing up, not even when I was a young adult,...

July 21, 2013

Beloved Brothers

I have long recognized that crossing over a border, be it between Georgia and Florida,...

June 2013

June 13, 2013

God help us – or send us Agent 86

I have been going to the same doctor for a decade. Dr. Nofry knows things...

May 2013

May 10, 2013

Momma of God

I was talking with a friend from New Orleans the other day. Before she became...

May 07, 2013

Not a story of miracles

By now you've heard the news that Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight have...

April 2013

April 24, 2013

The Great Conspirator of Goodness & Awkward Encounters

How many coincidences have to happen before it's not a coincidence anymore? That's the question...

April 07, 2013

A Resurrection Wedding

The pastor called it. "A resurrection wedding," she said. Her remark wasn't solely a...

April 05, 2013

Roger Ebert: I will be dead. What happens then?

Before his passing Roger Ebert wrote a lovely goodbye essay, I do not fear death, that...

March 2013

March 22, 2013

On Juxtapositions

Barry Hannah used to say it was the glaring juxtapositions of the South that...

March 21, 2013

Off to the Village

By Konnie Our day started off with us eating a quick breakfast of...

March 20, 2013

Miracles anyone?

Editor's Note: Konnie is home from Sierra Leone. She'll be sharing some stories with us...

March 14, 2013

If I were God

"You have raised a deplorable, shiftless, lazy son." The man on the other end of...

February 2013

February 01, 2013

God’s Super Bowl Team

With the Big Game just days away you probably have your checklist of things...

January 2013

January 17, 2013

If the NRA were a Religion

If the NRA were a religion (and let's face it, it is the only...

December 2012

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...

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