Yesterday I went to an exhibition of America's most prominent living painter, Andrew Wyeth. He has spent much of his life in Maine and his paintings r...
Nanny McPhee is a cute little movie – a parable about parenting that those of you who have children should use as a discussion-starter with them. I ...
Few things make me more uncomfortable than crying in front of other people. In private, especially in the dark, I'm OK. But I find it embarrassing in ...
“All men die, but how many truly live?” William Wallace asked in Braveheart. The paradox is that to live well, we must make our peace with death....
Karen and I celebrated 25 years of marriage in December. She’s been a great partner. We’ve shared so many adventures together. I’ve watched many...
The danger in America is that we become self-absorbed and miss God's heart for the poor that Bono pointed us to Isaiah 58 (in his address at the Natio...
To learn something, a coach really helps. A teacher may lay out the facts and the principles, a trainer may spell out the procedures, but it all comes...
As a junior in high school, my mom encouraged me to go on a two-month mission trip to Guatemala. That took a lot of effort on her part, because I was ...
I got up at 3:45 this morning with this thought buzzing in my head: "Go ask someone who reads your blog to help you." I don't know if it was God or th...
