NEW YEAR'S DAY, AS WE KNOW IT, IS OBSERVED ON JANUARY 1, a relatively new date based on the modern Gregorian calendar. The earliest observance by the Chinese originated in 2000 BC from an ancient Chinese legend of the monster Nian and fell on the first day of the...

IN THE BEGINNING was nothing—not even empty space. Nothing—except the relational essence we call God. This God has been revealed to us as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and the relationship between them is what we know as love. But in that immaterial beginning, God...

JUST SAW a Twitter thing that says it all: “When something goes wrong in your life, just yell ‘PLOT TWIST’ and move on.” Do you have days when everything that can go wrong does? Mine started at 3:00 AM when the smoke alarm went off. Cold night. The woodstove chimney...

AS A CHILD, I read Elsie Dinsmore, the first of a series that rivaled Alcott’s Little Women and subsequent books. One day while re-reading it, I saw it with new eyes: an overtly Christian story about a young girl whose overbearing father seeks to turn her from her...

YOU KNOW YOU'VE READ A GOOD BOOK WHEN YOU TURN THE LAST PAGE AND FEEL A LITTLE AS IF YOU HAVE LOST A FRIEND.                          ~Paul Sweeney I know the feeling. Story can abduct us, hold us captive, and keep us in thrall for days after the cover is closed. How...