The other day I checked a book out of the church library – Davita’s Harp by Chaim Potak. A character in the story, Jakob, tells the young girl, Davita, a strange story about a little bird who woke up in a beautiful land filled with people who were often...
A professor told me that when he and his wife were global workers in South Africa, local men reproved him for allowing his wife to get so thin. Her size reflected poorly on his willingness and ability to provide enough food for her. She made him look bad. But his...
PICTURE PRAISE He feeds on ashes; a deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is there not a lie in my right hand?” Isaiah 44:20 This is a photo of Mycenaean clay household idols. I took it in a museum in...
I wanted to know how to love well, but I never anticipated how God would teach me. In the spring of 2009, I was sitting with a group of coaches for a leadership conference. One of them, Iris, is a woman I greatly admire. We are similarly wired, though...
