This has happened to all of us. At the right time at the right place we’ve said the right thing. Of course! We’re brilliant (or mostly brilliant). Here’s a little truth for you. Sometimes I scramble for just the right thing to say at the right time. My job is...

  A baby lives for minutes after she’s born. A twenty-one-year-old son and a close friend to dozens of peers dies after a series of bad choices. The word cancer is back. Your financial security is not secure. A single, want-to-be dad still waits to adopt after five years of...

Are your experiences with God shareable, or should they be kept private? We begin with this question as we pick up from last week’s column where I wrote about how many of us have become our own islands when it comes to sharing our godly experiences. In last week’s conclusion,...

I get it. You have your relationship with God. It’s personal. It’s private. And it’s none of anyone else’s business. For some, there is no draw to come to worship because the church may strain your relationship with God, which, according to you, is fine as it is. After all,...

To a kid who grew up on a dead-end dirt road tucked away in a part of very rural Susquehanna County, Halloween was always—eh. Just eh. No expectations. No excitement. Mom and dad packed us kids and off we rode around the nearby town of some twenty houses. In and...

I thought we’d get better, that the world would grow up with me, and that the problems we had when I was a teen would resolve because with age comes wisdom. Then I heard from a group of junior high girls who shared that vaping happens in the school bathrooms....

This is gonna hurt. First, I’m not writing for either side. I’m the middle child—literally. If you’re looking for me to dish Democrats or rattle Republicans, I have something far greater to do with my time and suggest up front what you should do with yours. And that something to...

I will never say we speak for God, but can say that by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, we can speak from God. When we pray for the right words to use and know that when we are speaking that the words from our lips are not our own...

High in the Colorado Rocky Mountains the waters of a small stream separate. Water literally goes left or right. Some water travels west, joins the Colorado River, and empties into the Gulf of California and the Pacific Ocean. Likewise, some water travels east, joins the Mississippi River and dumps into...

You remember the question. It’s likely you’ve even asked this very same question to a tike when the little one was the age you once were: What do you want to be when you grow up? The top five answers in my day may have been the same top five...