Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love, is all the rage. In fact, its been all the rage for years now. Millions of copies sold. A fragrance line. A movie. All this, from a book that is spiritual journey, travelogue, and one woman’s quest to find true love. I’m not going to add my opinion to the…

It’s easy to have faith in God when everything is going well. When I walk down the dirt road near our house and see the osprey flying home to their nest with a fish in his claws, when the breeze cools my body and the marsh grass glows a yellow-green and the blue of the…

Mom stayed home with us until my youngest sister (I have three) was five. Even then, she went back to work part-time, as a pre-school teacher. She has been a grandmother in training for two decades. Every night, except Mondays when we had the special treat of McDonald’s, she cooked dinner–one for us, another for…

“An Open Letter to Anne Rice,” by Karen Spears Zacharias, should be of interest to anyone who has followed Anne Rice’s public declaration that she has left Christianity. I wrote a quick response earlier this week: “Can You Follow Christ Without Being a Christian.”    I’ve also been grateful for an interesting discussion in response…

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