Almost every day I feel like following Jesus is like holding a taut rope.  One the hand I go through my day feeling like my best is not good enough, no matter what I do.  […]

I have just finished Julie Yip-Williams’ The Unwinding of the Miracle — A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After (Random House, 2019). What a powerful read. The book is Yip-Williams’ account of […]

I am reading The Unwinding of the Miracle by Julie Yip-Williams. She died last March (2018) of colon cancer at age 42. She was born into a poor family in 1975 in Viet Nam with […]

My hometown of Colby Kansas, sits just  north of Interstate 70 in Northwest Kansas. Victoria, Kansas (about 100 miles to the east of Colby) sits immediately south of Interstate 70. Victoria is the home to the […]

41 years ago today I was dating a freshman girl at a small Christian college in Manhattan, Kansas, named Jennifer Earles. She was from Phoenix, Arizona and had come from the desert to Kansas for […]

My custom most mornings is to start by spending time reading the Bible, praying, thinking and writing in my journal. Then I turn to the news of the day. Today’s edition of the New York Times […]

The political divide in this country cuts deeply, into how we view politics, where we live, who we want our kids to marry, and even where we go to church. Who can we ever trust, […]