Note: On Saturdays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there. It can be a deep and profound reflection, assuming the role of each person in the parable of the lost son: the profligate young man who made merry by taking his… Continue reading Prodigal Son: After the Reunion
Category: Nonfiction
On the Nightstand: Redeemed (Again)
In addition to being sisters in Christ, Pam Spano and I are sister fan girls of Heather King, who has described herself as an ex-attorney, recovering alcoholic Catholic convert (and who I think is among the best memoirists writing today). So when Pam messaged me the top cover of Redeemed: Stumbling Toward God, Sanity, and… Continue reading On the Nightstand: Redeemed (Again)
Friends in Faith: Rest in Peace, Shannon Wine
About two weeks ago, I got a message from a good friend from a Christian writers’ conference. She’d seen on social media that a mutual friend, Shannon Wine, had suffered a brainstem hemorrhage and the prognosis was very poor. The following day, Shannon was declared brain dead. Shannon wasn’t a small woman, but she moved… Continue reading Friends in Faith: Rest in Peace, Shannon Wine
Agreement with the Lord
Note: On Saturdays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there. Today you have obtained the Lord’s agreement: to be your God; and for you to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, his commandments, and his ordinances, and to obey him. (Deuteronomy… Continue reading Agreement with the Lord