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To Tell His Story . . . Part 1
California is a vast territory. Mountains covered with evergreen. Oceans lined with sand. Forests impaled with redwood. But at the heart of it all, like a spine connecting the various parts of life, a...
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The Prodigal Father . . . Part 3
Two years after my brother’s crippling car accident, I graduate from the eighth grade and find myself approaching another church stage. Only this one is in a different city. My dad calls me one day to...
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Mercy on a Mountaintop . . . Part 4
The summer before my senior year of high school, I go to camp. A group of teens from my church pile into a 15-passenger van, and we ride for four hours to a rustic campground in the highlands. When...
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The Brave Samaritan . . . Part 5
Upon entering the sanctuary, I can only find an available seat in the balcony on the front row. This is no ordinary church service. I’ve been waiting for this event all year. In this denomination, the...
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The Unlikely Woman at the Well . . . Part 6
Each Wednesday for Lent, I’ve been telling another portion of my story, which is really His story, of how He has authored my faith. (Hebrews 12:2) Today’s story takes place when I’m 25 years old . . ....
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Life without a Net . . . Part 7
Photo by XeuBix On Wednesdays, I’ve been telling another portion of my story, which is really His story, of how He has authored my faith. (Hebrews 12:2) Today’s story takes place when I’m 26 years old...
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A Dare to Dream and Dance Again . . . Part 8
By Kryziz Bonny On Wednesdays, I’ve been telling another portion of my story, which is really His story, of how He has authored my faith. (Hebrews 12:2) Today’s story takes place when I’m 26 years old...
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The Call of Joseph . . . Part 9
Photo By Max Wolfe ~ Creative Commons In recent weeks, I’ve been telling my story, which is really His story, of how He has authored my faith. (Hebrews 12:2) Today’s story takes place when I’m 27...
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Faith in 3-D . . . The Call to #ActivitistFaith
While typing on my keyboard, I notice my dog Spark lift her sleepy head and sniff in the direction of our front door. Seconds later, the doorbell rings. Spark never moves. In fact, she’s already gone...
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P is for Popular ~ P is also for Pre-Approved
From across the room, I watch the girls hover together. Shoulder to shoulder. Encircling each other. Laughter pierces the air with a familiar pang—another reminder that I’m not one of them. Voices...
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The Broken Path of Single Motherhood ~ Hope for Every Season
More than 16 years ago, I walked the broken path of single motherhood. It was never part of the “plan.” And it was lonelier and harder than any other path I’ve ever journeyed on. All these years...
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The Secret to Great Writing
I prepare dinner for my family almost every day. But I hardly consider myself a cook. On spaghetti night, I boil a package of store-bought pasta. Then I pop open a jar of Prego and dump it in a pot....
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The Beauty of Scripture
In recent weeks, I’ve been writing a Bible Study on John’s three epistles. John’s first letter is often dubbed “the love letter” because he mentions the word love (or some form of it) 43 times....
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The Man with Twigs on His Head
Now that our son is old enough for Cub Scouts, Jeff has volunteered to be a Cub Scout den leader. It’s one way we invest in our local community. Our pack meets at a local church, and the room we meet...
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A Pleasant Presence
Toward the end of every semester, I take a mini blogging sabbatical so I can fully devote my energies to grading research papers. I know, you’re insanely jealous, right? Well, I gave my last final...
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For When You Feel Like You’re Failing at the Whole “Working Mom” Thing
I’ve been a mom for almost two decades, and for most of those twenty years, I didn’t bring home a paycheck. At all. Tax time was easy because my husband’s W-2 form was all we needed to file our taxes....
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Making the Transition from Writing to Blogging
When I started blogging five years ago, I treated my “blog writing” the same as my “regular writing.” And I made some critical errors. The transition from writing to blogging isn’t as easy as it might...
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A Father’s Gift
King David wanted to build the temple that would be God’s holy dwelling place. But God said that David’s son, Solomon, would be the one to build it. So David began the process of assembling large...
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The Key to Understanding Scripture
I’m currently reading through the Old Testament with Team 365. And some of the stories found in the Old Testament are just plain hard to understand. The following questions inevitably come up: Why did...
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Coming Soon . . . A New Bible Study on the Letters of John
As a professor of literature, I love teaching books, but the Book I love teaching the most is the Book with living words — the Word of God. My father was a pastor, so I grew up hearing Bibles stories...
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