Beautiful Books
An acquaintance described them with a phrase her six-year-old friend coined: “deliciously kind.” They’re the stories that remind us of the world that ought to be.
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On Ash Wednesday
This world is forever demanding that we take it as seriously as it takes itself, and it tempts us to take ourselves too seriously too.
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Do the Next Thing
In the days when we’re not sure what to do next, let’s do the next thing.
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Why We Talk About Imagination
I had a conversation with a friend recently about her little boys. One of them is in the stage where he has imaginary friends; at present, he has three of them, with nonsensical names she doesn’t understand. Mom is doing a great job respecting the stage he’s in. She allows this kind of creative play…
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Charles Dickens and the Upside-Down Kingdom
Throughout the story, Dickens subtly weaves in allusions to the Bible’s rich young ruler, who was unwilling to give up all he had to follow Jesus.
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Beauty Will Win
If you’re a Christian, you have to believe that Beauty will win. Life will triumph over death. Beauty will overcome the ugliness of the world just as Jesus’s blood has removed the stains of sin in your heart.
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A Permission Slip for the Middle of Winter
Permission to let a plant or two die. At least the humans are surviving.
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Chilling Time
Just as the cold is inevitable, so too is the warmth. It just takes time to collect.
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Noisy January
Regardless of how you’re reading the news every week, there are times when it can seem overwhelming and loud. Life feels heavier than ever before.
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Review: Lilias Trotter: Daring in the Desert
This wonderful middle-grade biography spans Lilias’s entire life, revealing all the providential moments that lead her to the decision to leave home, security, and success behind and become a missionary in Africa.
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Hail Th’Incarnate Deity
When this secular tune about the written word was matched to this sacred poem about Word Made Flesh, the world was given a gift: a doctrinally weighty, yet joyfully light, celebration of Immanuel, God Come Near.
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Christmas, Whidbey Island, 1975
he reminds us that the centerpiece of God’s creative imagination is Bethlehem, “…site of the Incarnation, flash point of the joining of heaven and earth, invisible and visible reality, transcendent and material.”
