New Post on the Park Forum: “That They All May Be One.” Read more

New post on the Park Forum: Natural Disasters. Incidentally, there’s an interesting comment with a link to a video clip posted here too. More to come on the education topic… soon… Read more

We’ve lived in a boarding school for seven years now, and six of those have been in a dorm with thirty high school boys. In general, it’s been great (I have blocked out last year, when William left us so sleep-deprived that we couldn’t see straight and I didn’t even learn the boys’ names). And there have been moments of participating in something greater than ourselves. There was the time when a student from Mexico, another from Newark, and another... Read more

Hi all, I just noticed that my book, Penelope Ayers, is on sale on amazon.com at the moment for $11.69 (how on earth they set these prices, I have no idea). Click here if you’re interested. I just returned from a week of book-related events in the Boston area, so the story is on my mind again, after a long hiatus. For those of you who don’t know, it’s a memoir and spiritual autobiography, the story of one year in... Read more

A few months ago, Ken Myers, of the Mars Hill Audio Journal (if you don’t know about this, I highly recommend checking it out), interviewed a historian. Of course, I can no longer remember the historian’s name, or the name of the Enlightenment thinker about which he spoke. Sorry. What I do remember, and what has been percolating in my brain for a few months now, is that this Enlightenment thinker had a Trinitarian understanding of God’s humility. It’s fairly... Read more

New Post on the Park Forum, relating the thief on the cross to Hospice care in America’s prisons: click here. Read more

If you haven’t had a chance to read through the comments on last week’s post on adoption, I commend them to you. If you are one of the people who contributed to that conversation, thank you. You’ve helped me to clarify some of my own thinking on the issue, and you’ve prompted further reflection. So where am I now? I should explain first that for the past few months, every time I have thought about having another child, I wondered... Read more

I would like to have another biological child, and can argue that the desire is good. Children are a gift from God, after all (See Psalm 127:3). And yet, there are millions of orphans in the world. And over and over again, Biblical writers urge those of us who follow God to take care of the widows and the orphans (See James 1:27). If there’s anything I believe, it is that I am to participate in changing the “economy” of... Read more

New post on The Park Forum: The Value of Life Read more

I love order. It brings me great peace to clear the dining room table, to put away folded laundry, to gather all the items strewn upon the floor in the front hall and restore them to their proper place. If I had more time, everything in our house would be orderly. As it is, I pick a few key locations and do my best. Genesis 1 speaks of God bringing order out of chaos: “Now the earth was formless and... Read more