Christianity

The practice of medicine is one of the most gratifying careers possible, but it is relentless in its demands and unforgiving of imperfections — both those of.....

Scrutinizing the dentally-deficient gift horse of agnostic nihilism.

When waters break, their power spent in fine mist on the breeze, to thus retreat and gather up and hurl again against those jagged boulders yet unfazed.....

A wise friend—a man who helped me emerge from a period of considerable difficulty in my life—once taught me a simple lesson.

Liberation from bondage to shame through openness, vulnerability, and grace.

One of life’s great pleasures for me is discovering new music. Now, mind you, this is rarely new in the sense of being a new group which.....

Lying on my desk, clipped to a yellow manila binder, is a single sheet of paper. Its pleasant color format and sampled photomicrograph belie the gravity of.....

Toward a deeper understanding of prayer.

It was late evening. I was headed for a meeting, at the end of a too-long day, and stopped into Starbucks for my nightly fix. The store.....

Meditation on Calvary, for Good Friday: where all mankind was manifest in their standing with God.

What brilliant darkness now descends To slay the weight which life doth rob To bear the anguish undeserved On frigid stone no glorious end. The blazing lanterns.....