Cooled air summons under starlight . . . night bugs pulse minor triads; slugs glide shiny trails in the streetlight between shadows . . ....

I love the calm, slate-gray mornings After a middle-night thunderstorm When rain still drips from a dome of trees, How...

Many years ago when I was only six years into my teaching, a little episode happened at school that I have remembered all these years. I...

Introduction : Solomon said that the end of a thing is better than the beginning (Ecclesiastes 7:8). In some ways, I agree,...

A "More Human" Jesus? I have long wrestled with Dallas Jenkins' portrayal of Jesus in The Chosen. From what little I have watched in...

An "Authentic" Jesus? In a show designed to entertain, I think it is fair to ask whether this purpose also applies to its...

Imagine a conversation between the Apostle Paul and Joseph in heaven where they discuss Romans 8:28, "And we know that all things work...

Introduction: The Internet, smartphones, GPS, digital cameras--these staples of daily life were foreign to most of us two generations ago, and, if they existed at all, were initially regarded as novelties, if not downright oddities. But someone's idea found not only "wings" but "landing gear," (as C. D. Jackson, a United States government psychological warfare advisor, put it), and here we are wondering how we ever got along without these "necessities." Whether these conv

Jacob, like his son Joseph, probably wondered whatever happened to that blessing that set the tone of his youth--that blessing promised...

I am reminded that there are still those small lanterns burning in the world, no matter how dark things become. It was 8:45 p.m. on May...