Antonio in Rudolfo Anaya’s book, Bless Me, Ultima, is impatient. He pushes himself to be a devout Catholic and becomes the priest of his friend group at age se...
Sensible shoes, newly purchased Harvard shirts, and the placebo shutter of a smartphone camera… I’ve become part of the photographable attraction for yet anoth...
When I was younger I always wished to be invisible at a Georgian-era ballroom dance, jotting down sights and smells in run-on sentences in a plain black noteboo...
Christ has made all things new. The good news of the gospel transforms our understanding of power, and death, and love. So why does the church still, all too of...
One of the most controversial subjects in the Bible for our egalitarian culture is the encouragement of women to be submissive. Some critics attack Paul as sexi...
In reflecting on one of my meetings on Wednesday, I complained to my roommates that I am awkward. Actually, worse than that: painfully awkward. In the meeting, ...
"Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, the offspring of David, as preached in my gospel, for which I am suffering, bound with chains as a criminal. But th...
While they were at Lystra, Paul and Barnabas came upon a man with crippled feet. He had been that way from birth, so he had never walked. He was sitting and lis...
My dear Wigglesworm,
It's been sweltering down here in the Lower Regions - you would think you were in the high summer of Boston, but no, it's just hell. Any...
"Do not remember the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing, now it shall spring forth; shall you not know it? I will even...