Hoping for Happiness
When I was a kid, my role models were serious. They smiled occasionally, but when they talked about God they stopped smiling. God is serious. To become holy, I guessed, meant that one
Book Reviews
Encouragement: The Unexpected Power of Building Each Other Up
Some books deserve to be forgotten, or to be read for a short time. Others — fewer than you’d think — deserve to be read for decades. One book that deserves continued attention is
A Way With Words
I’ve wanted to quit social media lately. Open up Facebook or Twitter and you’ll mind all manner of opinions on any issue you can imagine. I haven’t quit yet, but
The Cookbook That Made Me Worship
Interested in cooking lamb for eight persons four times? The Supper of the Lamb will teach you how. It will do more than that: it will teach you how to make different kinds
The Minister’s Wife
You could argue that I’m not the most qualified person to review a book called The Minister’s Wife: A Memoir of Faith, Doubt, Friendship, Loneliness, Forgiveness, and More by Karen Stiller,