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Ruth: The Skeptic and The Saint

April 22, 2025

Ruth: The Skeptic and The Saint

While there are all manner of obstacles, disappointments and sorrows along the way, the end is redemption for each of the three.

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March 27, 2024

How Can I Know?

Had Jesus kept himself to the stories and miracles things might have worked out in the end but he didn’t.

March 13, 2024

Heavy Fish and Light Lines

It is not the irresistible facts or the logic that works with people headed in the wrong direction.

February 27, 2024

Brothers

It’s not a story of two idealistic young men on a journey of narcissistic discovery or returning home with tales of how the grief of the world has enriched their lives.

February 13, 2024

Eyes to See

Why has the “godless” description captured our attention so much more than what the numbers are telling us?

January 24, 2024

Measure What Matters

Countless times I have seen him measure and re-measure a plank with his T-square and then carefully draw the red pencil line across the cut.

December 26, 2023

The Unexpected Good

We keep working in hope. We work in faith. We persist.

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