One afternoon, I was standing on my paddle board, looking into the clear water below. Suddenly, I saw a large, ominous shadow approaching. I strained to see what it was and...

As my friend Charles approached serious heart surgery, he had great peace. He explained: “Whatever way it turns out, I’m a winner.” A few years later, he faced another heart procedure...

As I watched Lainie, my 15-year-old granddaughter, walk out of Central High School, I noticed that she was wearing a cross necklace and had John 3:16 printed on her shirt. On...

We were camping in Yellowstone National Park in Raven’s Roost Campground. When we were rudely awakened before dawn by a riotous chorus of caws, we learned why one term for a...

Prior to elections in Kenya in 2017, we heard numerous appeals for a peaceful voting experience. Even as the appeals for peace were being made, the fear of violence simmered deep...

When I studied abroad at the Human Rights Institute in Strasbourg, France, I befriended students from Algeria and Tunisia. Since the program focused on religious rights, we discussed religious freedom in...

The summer before my sophomore year of college, I was working at a camp 900 miles from home. Being away from my home church and the Christian community at my college...

At the institute where I teach, I gave a special assignment to the first-year students. I asked them to write a prose-poem on the topic, “If I were given two wings.”...

Over a period of time, I watched a pair of robins build a nest, hatch their eggs, and feed their young. What a busy pair! Once the babies arrived, the parents...

My friend went white-water rafting with a small group, and after going over a class IV rapid, she was tossed out of the raft and into a turbulent part of the...