I grew up in the Midwest. Winter in the Midwest is not easy, nor is it particularly pretty. The hallmarks of a Midwestern winter are not...

There he sat in a trance, being tempted by none other than the God he had dedicated his life to obey. “Get up, Peter, kill and eat!”...

My family and I had only been on the road for about 45 minutes before we started saying things like, “Look at that!” and “How beautiful!”...

There are a lot of ways to speak about hospitality, probably as many ways as there are to be hospitable. But, I particularly love...

Change is afoot. Cooler mornings, longer nights, louder cicadas, and geese in the sky. I’ve loved late August since childhood when ripe...

My wife was at home in early labor when I took my then 3 year old daughter to a nearby playground. This was a sacred day. It’s one of...

The God of my youth was immoveable, a solid rock, changeless. That the Earth and the whole universe are in a process of constant change...

It was during my sophomore year at the Christian college I was attending that I got my first sense that something was wrong with this...

Our staff meeting was filled with grumbles before the meeting even officially started. Several people caught wind that Father Scott might...

It was at a Black Lives Matter protest that I saw an image that struck me—one I knew I would not easily forget. I saw 2 women who wore...