It started simply enough. I was meeting with four folks, planning a worship service, drinking coffee, and struggling to stay on...

Let’s get straight to it. Winter sucks. No one much likes winter except hibernating bears, sweater knitting cranks, and ski-sloping...

The wind lashed against the banks of the Ohio River with a sharp, unforgiving cold. The sun was out, and I was bundled in at least three...

“Why do we people in church seem like cheerful, brainless tourist on a packaged tour of the absolutes?” asked Annie Dillard. It’s a...

I had emptied my suitcase, washed my clothes, and in less than 12 hours of coming home from an eight-state tour of the South, I was...

When the mission conference ended, I went about living outdoors again. I had packed up my conference attire and had put my three layers...

A duck had hit me in my face the night before. It just came out the trees, bounced off the ground, and flew headlong into my face. It had...

I stopped believing in signs from God a longtime ago. I mean, really, think about it. What is a sign from God? Is it the ray of light...

Had I known the man in the water was about to die, I would’ve stopped complaining. My favorite time of day is early in the morning. An...

What we do when there is nothing to do is the thing we do most often. Thursday is that day for me, but many days more than once a week...