Vershal Hogan 
“If being hurt by church causes you to lose faith in God,” so the saying on a popular image macro goes, “then your faith was in people, not in God.” I’ve been seeing this sentiment …
The poem, some say, has been given to us for times when prose cannot express the heart. It’s an art form that has been used to elevate, to devastate, and to strike a mood. It …
Like most people, I did not get Raptured on Rosh Hashanah. At this point, I have not been a part of a Rapture-emphasizing tradition for more of my life than I was, but I came …
When I was growing up, whenever I would go on a trip without the family, my father would turn to me just before I left and say, “Remember who you are.” As my own children …
In 2016, then-future President Donald John Trump gave a speech in Sioux Center, Iowa, that would define not only his presidential campaign but the next four years of his time in office. He could shoot …
“Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.” – Romans 13.1 “Woe to those who decree iniquitous …
“Can you tell me what kind it is?” A rock, thrust in my face by my keen-eyed daughter, looked like the kind of shale we’d been examining for the better part of an hour. The …
I have lost at least three tires to rocks in the Arkansas mountains in the last 10 years. The number may be higher, but those are the ones I can count off the top of …
With God, it all comes back to a garden. Humanity, the Bible says, got its start in a garden, a place so perfect that everything was good to eat save one fruit. That fruit, however, …
i look to the god of my fears, and ido not bow, because that god is too small to have createdthe giant yew, or the stars or the galaxies of microbes that populatea single stomach, …