The other day I got myself in such a dither, I had to take a time out. It was my last chance to make a revision in my manuscript before its...

Did you ever worry that you made a terrible decision and wondered if God would ever make it right? I did. My last three years read like a ...

That wall had annoyed me since the day we moved in, particularly because it blocked the light from the one large window on the other end ...

  You’ve seen them—those Do It Yourself project books and TV shows featuring a perfectly groomed woman mortaring a tile backsplash or p...

I consider myself a rather sober sort. Sensible, circumspect, not given to “seeing things.” But one afternoon last summer while lounging by...

Back when I was teaching school and looking for ways to dazzle my students, I accumulated an assortment of magnets. I keep them in a plast...

Recently, a group of us in a writers’ workshop were brainstorming ideas about Jesus’ childhood. Our enthusiastic instructor, Ginger Kolba...

  Just follow God. Seems like an easy enough idea, especially if you have  a cloud by day and pillar of fire by night leading you. But all I...

My husband has another woman in his life. He listens to her. He does what she tells him to. Some days he spends more time with her than w...

Early in our marriage we fumbled around with figuring out our roles. I, a brand-new Christian was eager to put my wildly independent past be...

Every time I picked up Kevin Belmonte’s anthology of G. K. Chesterton, I felt like a child on a beach outing who starts out to gather onl...