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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...

February 2014

February 27, 2014

This Dark Road to Tent Revivals & New Orleans

I met a fella named Memphis Storm this week. That's his first and middle...

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...

December 02, 2013

Agony of Advent

"Out of the stump of David's family will grow a shoot..." Isaiah 11: 1 Advent....

November 2013

November 21, 2013

Book Giveaway: The Prayer Box

Speaking of coming across the prayers of the dead, have you read Lisa Wingate's latest...

November 06, 2013

Hobbling Faith

I took an ailing veteran to the VA Center in Boise, Idaho this week. He's...

September 2013

September 24, 2013

Where Worship Rises to Blue Rafters

The strings begin. The trumpets, clarinets and French horn chime in. One by one various instruments...

September 23, 2013

Tribe of Blood Kin

“I sustain myself with the love of family.” ― Maya Angelou They told him he has...

September 17, 2013

Introducing my new BFFs

Early yesterday morning, after a full day of travel by van, three airplanes, and my...

September 15, 2013

Confucius is wrong. Leave your heart behind.

Years ago when I was moving thousands of miles away from my home and everyone...

September 12, 2013

Speaking Love through Soccer Balls and Bear Hugs

Miz Shelby is guest blogging from Guatemala with World Vision. My stomach was in knots....

August 2013

August 29, 2013

The Trinity of Unemployment, Addiction & Depression

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

August 20, 2013

They Walk Among Us

They walk among us, the despairing do. Some are quiet, unassuming, gentle souls. Others are...

August 06, 2013

The Loneliness Epidemic

Raise your hand if you remember this song from your youth: It could be argued...

July 2013

July 18, 2013

Faith-colored glasses

We were invited to attend a concert in the village up the road a'piece. Every...

May 2013

May 29, 2013

When God pulls out his fork

He told me that his kids confessed to smoking all his weed, this cabbie did....

March 2013

March 21, 2013

Off to the Village

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

November 2012

November 07, 2012

Expecting a Political Messiah

She sat in the pastor's office, a blubbering heap. I just don't know what...

September 2012

September 12, 2012

Death’s Long-Shadow

Irony is the long-shadow of death. It is early morning yet. I have just administered...

June 2012

June 20, 2012

This presidential election: Why I don’t care

I don't care who will win the upcoming presidential election. I really don't. Oh. I...

April 2012

April 08, 2012

Enchanted Easter

They stood in groups of three or four and some all by their lonesome waiting...

April 04, 2012

Redemption in Shoe Leather

I just got off the phone with a writer from the Walla Walla Union Bulletin....

March 2012

March 29, 2012

Crippled by Despair

A new dawn is breaking outside the window of this stone house where I sit...

February 2012

February 14, 2012

The Hope of Adele

I was in a public place recently and heard an older gentleman tell a joke...

August 2011

August 28, 2011

It begins with a girl: A Hopeful Goodbye

Editor's Note: Daughter Shelby has been in Cambodia with a missions group from Antioch Church....

August 05, 2011

Give more, worry less: A Christian perspective on the Stock Market

I was somewhere between The Dalles and Hood River when I first heard the awful...

May 2011

May 26, 2011

Elizabeth Smart has what Casey Anthony needs

Two days after her toddler daughter was last seen alive, Casey Anthony asked to borrow...

March 2011

March 25, 2011

The Hell We Create

Editor's note: The following is a comment a regular blog reader made in reference to...

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