PRAYING HONESTLY
I know for a fact that it is easy to glide over into religious postures that make me feel good, holy and right. I also […]
September 2025
GRATEFUL JOY
Ann Voskamp, Canadian author wrote: “No amount of regret changes the past. No amount of anxiety changes the future. Any amount of grateful joy changes […]
THE WISE PEOPLE
Anne Snyder, editor Comment Magazine wrote: “It’s a risky one to ask in a Reformed-inflected, upper-middlebrow journal. But it’s time. There is no shortage of […]
WISDOM LIST #19
How to Choose A Taco There are a good many suggestions and ideas about what a ‘good taco’ looks like and tastes like. It is […]
WATER TO WINE
Recently in the night I kept hearing: ‘Many of us need a Water to Wine miracle.’ This is reference to the Wedding at Cana in […]
CULTIVATING OUR CULTURE II
In yesterday’s Journal entry this comment was made:“That the word “culture” is related to the Latin word for “cultivation,” for “tending”—like a gardener cultivates soil […]
CULTIVATING OUR CULTURE I
Jennifer Newsome Martin, professor at Norte Dame University wrote: “That the word “culture” is related to the Latin word for “cultivation,” for “tending”—like a gardener […]
THE ONE, THE GOOD, THE BEAUTIFUL
Dionysius the Areopagite (first century AD) was according to Acts of the Apostles 17:32-34, converted to Christianity at Athens. “When they heard about the resurrection […]
TO DISCERN WHAT IS BEST
“And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what […]