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The following is an imagined continuation of the Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis: Wormwood spoke with authority. “Hardtack, Screwtape...

Age has thrust upon me a ripening. I’ve reached a stage when stories begin with some variation of the word “ago,” as in some time ago,...

The other day, reading John Wesley’s three rules for living, the first of which is “Do no harm,” I understood the many difficulties in...

“ Give us this day our daily bread ” (Matthew 6:11, NKJV). The simple child in me never journeyed past the thought this was a request to...

In the Knight house on Route 2, Pelzer, South Carolina, it was just another spaghetti Saturday. Aunt Nancee obliged this ritual for my...

“Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it” (1...

There’s a quality to taking a road trip. Driving down the road around curves and corners, rolling over a glacis or ambling down some live...

There are times when my faith is tried, when I move from that great welled feeling of comfort and mystery and theory into a guttural...

I live in the shadows, the shaded remembrances of my past, persistent guideposts and framers of the person I was, who I became and still...

“ But they shook off the dust from their feet against them and came to Iconium. And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy...

I’ve heard it called the Easter story. To do so, I think, relegates it to a place and a time and a past, sets it apart as though it lived...

“I long to see you that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to make you strong – that is, that you and I may be mutually encouraged...

“Therefore, we must give the more earnest heed to the things we have heard, lest we drift away” (Hebrews 2:1). Mother reared me with...

I knew something was wrong. This something had no words, just feeling. Nothing I observed resembled the unthinking epithets hurled in...

“Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And when He had fasted forty days and forty nights,...

Tussie and Jordy and the Light descended the stairs, into the dark, through the dungeon and outside. They took to the woods, venturing...

Jordy, where are we? I’m not sure Tussie, but I think we’re in the castle dungeon. There is some light but not much. I can make out the...

Saeculum “For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also” ( Matthew 6:21, NKJV). Saeculum. Saeculum? Yes, Saeculum. The end of...

The Old Man of the Earth stooped over the floor of the cave, raised a huge stone, and left it leaning. It disclosed a great hole that...

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