Sticking to your words
I SPENT A lot of my childhood avoiding any kind of conflict, as far as possible. That made journalism something of an unlikely career choice—after all,…
Faith in the shadows
A QUIET HERO stepped out of the New Testament shadows this week, giving me a glimpse of steadfast love. It came in the familiar account of…
Wines, not vines
A CHRISTIAN magazine publisher I knew once grumbled that his staff must be doing a bad job because circulation wasn’t rising and “healthy things grow.” Well,…
Why bad news is good for us
AS PEOPLE WHOSE foundational reading is full of accounts of brutality, barbarity, and depravity, some Christians can be very squeamish when it comes to the news.…
Telling the old, old story
MOST JOURNALISTS SAY there are only a handful of different stories to be written; after a while, all you do is change the names and some…
Faceplant faith
I ALWAYS TELL young journalists that there’s no such thing as a stupid question—but that’s not entirely true. It’s not stupid if you don’t know the…
The disappointment ointment
DISAPPOINTMENT doesn’t end without a salve, whether you are spelling or experiencing it. Without some kind of treatment, we tend to keep scratching at let-downs like…
Dealing with doubt
HAVE YOU EVER sat there in church on a Sunday morning and wondered—even for just a moment—Do I really believe all this? Me too. It’s comforting…
Don’t be an Easter ass
OUR PASTOR REMINDED me this past weekend, when preaching about Palm Sunday, how odd it was for Jesus to enter Jerusalem on a donkey. Kings usually…
Leaky faith
YOU MAY HAVE heard of the guy who’d run to the front of the church every time there was a revival service, crying out, “Fill me…
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