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November 2014

November 11, 2014

Re-Reading the Same Story

Over at Relief, my friend Ross Gale writes about re-reading the past, and writing a different...

October 2014

October 02, 2014

Repairing the World

A lovely, deep essay from Steve Garber over at Art House America on repairing the world:...

September 2014

September 19, 2014

What Working With Editors Taught Me About Christ

As an editor, I work with writers - and as a writer, I work with...

July 2014

July 10, 2014

Adoption in Reality

Over at The Curator, Geoffrey Sheehy wrote about what his family learned about the theological metaphor...

July 03, 2014

What We Really Miss When We Miss College

A great reflection from Leadership Journal regarding what we're really missing when we feel nostalgic...

June 2014

June 30, 2014

Large and Startling Pictures

I'll confess: I'm a film critic, and I'll watch most anything, but there's one genre...

June 24, 2014

Rethinking Scarcity

I love this: Sarah Bessey writes at The High Calling about rethinking scarcity and living...

June 16, 2014

The Place of Our Affection

At Art House America, a marvelous essay from Andi Ashworth about home, and finding it...

May 2014

May 21, 2014

On Crises and Middles

Ever feel "fair-to-middling"? In The Curator, L.L. Barkat ruminates on "middles": Middle places can be unsettling....

April 2014

April 08, 2014

A Doubter in the Holy Land

In The New York Times, the writer and literary critic Maud Newton - who was raised...

August 2013

August 29, 2013

Summer and Liminality

Have you ever felt like you're just hanging in an in-between space - on the...

August 08, 2013

Rest and Silence

Two links today: first to a piece about silence by my friend Shannon Huffman Polson...

July 2013

July 18, 2013

What We Learn

One of my very favorite blogs is IMAGE Journal's Good Letters blog (which is also housed...

July 11, 2013

Should We Stop Pursuing an Accelerated Faith?

My personality is such that I'm always trying to get to the next stage of...

July 08, 2013

Ebenezer and Unexpected Good

Over at The Curator, Eric Peters tells a story of finding good in an unexpected...

June 2013

June 10, 2013

“Listening to Young Atheists” – Excellent Piece in The Atlantic

My friend and colleague, Dr. Greg Jones, of Duke University and the Laity Lodge Leadership...

May 2013

May 20, 2013

Repeating Yourself

There was a great little piece on the NY Times Opinionator blog about "the art...

May 14, 2013

Redemption in Angola Prison

Over at Comment Magazine, John Rottman has an interesting piece on the astounding transformation at...

April 2013

April 29, 2013

Pay It Forward (With Coffee)

This popped up on my Facebook feed this week and made me smile enough that...

April 10, 2013

The Long View

Hello, everyone! I'm delighted to be contributing here, and grateful to Mark for asking me...

August 2012

August 13, 2012

Gold-Medalist David Boudia: God is Perfect and Sovereign

By now, most of us would know David Boudia because of his gold-medal performance in...

March 2012

March 04, 2012

The Gospel in a Nutshell – Tim Keller Nails It

"The Christian gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for...

January 2012

January 17, 2012

When Tim Tebow Loses, Does God Lose Too? On the Contrary!

This is the question posed by religion writer Tom Krattenmaker in his USA Today op-ed,...

July 2011

July 28, 2011

You Don’t Need More Faith

You Don’t Need More Faith A few days ago, this post was my Daily Reflection,...