The surprise party

WHEN MY KIDS were small I knew of a fellow dad who gave his little ones balloons to hold each week when they went to church…

Crowdsourcing cowardice

YOU MIGHT SUSPECT that a small boy who was so unnerved by the ladybird buttons on his dressing gown that he asked his mother to replace…

Called out of hiding

FOUR SIMPLE WORDS strike fear in the hearts of many guys (me included): “We need to talk.” As someone who has spent much of his life…

The art of attraction

THROUGH THE YEARS I have met some Christians whose creative ways of sharing their faith have been inspirational. Like the bookbinder in then-Communist Russia who used…

On the prayer track

WHILE IT’S COMMON to talk of the “school of prayer,” I’ve decided that it’s an unfortunate metaphor. One that can lead us to think that some…