Posts Tagged ‘Diversity’

Becoming Sauce

Today will be applesauce-making day on our farm. The number of windfall apples lying on the ground is exponentially increasing, so I could put off the task no longer. The apple trees in our orchard are primarily antique varieties rarely grown any longer. I selected Spitzenburgs, a favorite apple of...

October 19th, 2012 | Essays, Featured | Read More

Shiny Little Legos

Color-coded plastic bins of tiny bricks lined the walls of our basement growing up. No matter how many times we were told to clean them up, the brownish carpet seemed always to be littered with the plastic blocks which, at just the right angle, could send pain shooting through an unsuspecting foot and...

May 8th, 2012 | Essays, Social Justice | Read More

God’s Jury

I never realized jury duty could be so awful and so illuminating. Probably the most redeeming factor in my recent stint of prolonged observation of mutually egotistical litigious blathering was this pearl of wisdom. The case details are insignificant for this story. I’ll spare you all the nonsense....

November 9th, 2011 | Essays, Featured | Read More

The Line Between Passion and Divisiveness

John Eldredge’s latest title, “Beautiful Outlaw” is his first since switching publishers. After a longtime association with Thomas Nelson, he’s now writing for Faithwords, home of the great Billy Coffey but also home to the very scary Joyce Meyer and Joel Osteen. [Disclaimer:...

October 23rd, 2011 | Blog | Read More