This is pretty damn funny. I wasn’t wild about Lamott’s last book, Grace, Eventually, but her first spiritual memoir, Traveling Mercies is a wondrous and hopeful and often hilarious collection of essays about her search for salvation as a recovering alcoholic and single mom. She’s also the author of one of my favorite maxims: “The…

A gal in my office was asked to suggest a name for Time magazine’s list of 100 Most Influential People. She picked someone who is a hero of mine — and a fellow I’ve written about frequently on the blog — Randy Pausch: Most of us would slip into a deep depression, but Randy used…

Several years ago, my wife and I made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. When we got off the bus at the Western Wall to pray, a woman stopped us and told us we had to either take off our religious medals and crosses or put them inside our shirts. My wife, wearing a small…

The actor who became an international sensation by playing Jesus Christ is doing his level best to honestly and forthrightly live the gospel — and do an immeasurable amount of good. Check out this moving story: Jim Caviezel, the star of the blockbuster film “The Passion of the Christ,” told an interviewer that he had…

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