The Pslamist says, “Put not your trust in princes, in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation” (Ps. 146:3, ESV). This rebukes my obsession with politics, as…
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One Small Step The day after Ruth Bader Ginsberg died, I joined a Story Corps One Small Step conversation while sitting in my writing chair, my books and sunshine behind…
This is the last weekend our pastor will be tending our church. When he told us he accepted a call to another church in Kansas, he said. “You need someone…
“Redeemed humanity is still young; it has hardly come to its full strength. But already there is joy enough in the little finger of a great saint such as yonder…
May 12, 2020-Things Get Better WNIJ Perspective Fifty years ago, I halted my horse by the mandrakes, far from the house, so my parents would not hear my sobs. I…
The Conspiracy Temptation “Do not call a conspiracy all that this people calls a conspiracy, and do not fear what they shall fear, nor be in dread,” God says to…
WNIJ Good Friday Perspective “You’ll be gone by spring,” said the same voice that drove me to retire. I was afraid this might be true, that I’d be dead by…
Glory be to God for poop. After a forty-degree temperature change and full water buckets, across two days, I was relieved to see big piles of manure in the mares’…
Gifts That I Desire Today The night before Christmas I used be full of anticipation. I’d listen to my mother wrapping presents on the ironing board, the thump of boxes,…
Seth Haines writes, “I’ve found myself giving into the noise in my pocket these days, failing to do the work to lay hold of silence.” When I opened this, annoyed…