I’ve been in the world for thirty years,And I must have traveled a million miles.Walked by rivers where the green grass grows thick,And entered the frontier where the red dust
I’m sure I am not the first person to think along these lines, but did you ever consider that you might not exist if certain things had happened or not
“Then the King will say to those on His right, ‘Come, you who are blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
This past Friday, I received the following message from Molly Steenson, CEO & President of the American Swedish Institute, my neighbor and venerable Twin Cities institution, which is ten blocks
“Being a Christian is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God’s will.”-Eric Metaxas* Avoiding Sin On my author page on this site, I describe myself
“Time, like an ever-rolling stream,Bears all its sons away;They fly forgotten, as a dreamDies at opening day.”—Isaac Watts January of 2026 ended heavily with national tension and grief. Not for
The GOP Reinvents Itself Though I’ve brokered many disappointments in the last ten years, none has been so acute as seeing roughly half my friends and extended family members exchanging
“Are you okay?” Reportedly, those were the last words of Alex Pretti as he sought to protect two women who were being assaulted by government agents. I am not okay.
In 1974, before my senior year at Cornell University, five dormmates and I decided to live off campus. An acquaintance had a rented house and needed five roommates. He seemed
Selective Reasoning in Churches A few weeks ago, I visited a small rural Kentucky city where my daughter attends college. Since she hadn’t yet selected a church, I tried to
My last essay, A Birthday (and Holiday) Lamentation, was a very personal exploration of some serious challenges in my life currently. It is a hard and sad post. Yet, there
Eugene Peterson once observed, “We live in a culture that has replaced soul with self. This reduction turns people into either problems or consumers.” He warned that once this exchange
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