Okay, so we’re not talking a multimillion dollar standoff between a rare worm and an oil pipeline, or a fly and a building complex, cases ...

That’s what a recent blog for the Center for Disease Control did to get the attention of those of us preparedness slackers who think eithe...

As a child, I delighted in playing with my grandmother’s stereoscope (a vintage Viewmaster of sorts). I’d place the sepia-colored, double-im...

“Being nibbled to death by a duck.” I don’t remember where I read this, but it is an image from some Bible study that has stuck in my mind o...

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...