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January 2013

January 08, 2013
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) would undoubtedly complain if Jesus Christ himself was singled out by...
January 07, 2013
I have not been to Europe since 1957. We left Germany when I was six...
January 05, 2013
  Mama ordered a $10 plastic urn. The nit-pickiest woman on planet earth - the...

December 2012

December 30, 2012
  In 1966, when we got word of my father’s death, it was my brother’s...
December 28, 2012
Shelby Jean Mayes Spears, 75, died after a brief bout of cancer at her son’s...
December 27, 2012
  Death is the most decisive moment in human life. It is like our coronation:...
December 25, 2012
Merry Christmas.
December 24, 2012
The men are all gathered around the TV. Daughter Shelby is hanging out with friends...
December 22, 2012
Editor's note: The following guest post was written by someone who wanted their privacy protected...
December 21, 2012
Editor's Note: A year ago, I asked my mother to paint me a picture of...
December 20, 2012
For the past four months it has felt like somebody pushed my head underwater into...
December 19, 2012
  This gun issue is President Obama's Lincoln moment. We are a nation divided ......
December 18, 2012
Sometimes it is downright embarrassing to be an evangelical. Oh, I'm not the least bit...
December 17, 2012
C. S. Lewis -- The Problem of Pain God is both further from us, and...
December 16, 2012
  Merton's Prayer MY LORD GOD, I have no idea where I am going. I...
December 15, 2012
Evil visited this community today, so declared Connecticut Gov. Dan Malloy. Malloy was one of many who...
December 12, 2012
There are stacks of books on my mother's dressers, piles of books on her bedside...
December 10, 2012
When I am dying do not read to me books of heaven and the people...
December 09, 2012
"Nobody commits suicide because they want to die - They just want to stop the...
December 08, 2012
Raised up in Seattle, he'd grown up comfortable. Not unaware but at least far removed...
December 06, 2012
I'd just filled up the gas tank on my way out of Spokane when I...
December 05, 2012
This is the time in which we announce our winner for Michael Morris's latest fiction...
December 02, 2012
  I'm writing this from a Starbucks in Columbus, Georgia. I made a very quick...

November 2012

November 29, 2012
  Lucky winners of last week's giveaway should be receiving their books in the mail...
November 28, 2012
  I worry that we have only changed out addictions. Traded in the packs of...
November 27, 2012
And do not follow the customs of the present age, but be transformed by the...
November 25, 2012
  Lindsey Stone says she was just joking around when she posed for this photo...
November 24, 2012
Did you get the house decorated for the holidays yet? No. Me neither. I'm hardly...
November 21, 2012
Seattle’s evening rush hour traffic had finally eased off. An all-day rain had soaked the...
November 20, 2012
  What does he mean, the Bible as metaphor? Mama asked. Oh. You know, I...
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