A New Family
At the end of every school year, I always looked forward to getting the yearbook. The first thing I did was turn to the...
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Radioactive
I visualized myself as being toxic, like a radioactive substance hidden in a glass test tube. Who would want to be assoc...
The Friend Who Brought You
Sitting in the library at the University of Aberdeen, I argued with an atheist for seven hours. By the end of the day, I...
Why Spiritual Growth Feels So Slow
After I got married, I realized that I was not nearly as spiritually mature as I had believed. One night, I paced around...
Holiness Happens When We Stop Hiding
I was twenty-four, running through a park near Waynoka Avenue in Memphis. Mile two, maybe three. The cold air burned my...
When You Feel Invisible
I was standing in the foyer of a massive megachurch, watching everyone else do what I couldn't figure out how to do. Eve...
What Goes Down Must Come Up
“One of the girls in our small group came to me after maybe a year or so of listening to people and she was like, ‘I fee...
Spiritually Lonely
During COVID, our church moved to live-streamed worship and Zoom calls for community groups. While I enjoyed the convers...
Horse Backwash
When I served as a campus minister at Harvard, I sometimes wondered if I belonged there. Everyone seemed to have themsel...
With
I walked slowly down the potluck tables, overloading my paper plate with rotisserie chicken, a green bean casserole, and...
Imitate Me
Chuck Johnston, my high school Bible study leader, taught me the book of James. I don't remember anything he said. But...
Quintuple Honor
A new church initiative led a friend to quit his job, sell his belongings, and move overseas for missionary service. But...
Stars
In The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis, the Narnians arrive at an island at the edge of the world, where they m...
Out of Line
Christianity Today tells the story of a pastor who drives two members of his church to work every day. They're legal imm...
Hidden Friends
On March 16, 1968, Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson was flying a helicopter over My Lai in Vietnam. As he looked down, he s...
Written
In Barracks 28 of the Ravensbrück concentration camp, Betsie ten Boom coughed on a bed stuffed with fleas and lice. Corr...
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