In 2004, Russ Masterson went on a fast. It wasn’t a fast from sugar or alcohol or the internet or cell phones. He fasted the old-fashioned way. For forty days, Russ Masterson didn’t eat food. Russ chronicles that fast in 40 Days Without Food: Divine Goodness to a Starving Soul, an e-book...

Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from 40 Days Without Food: Divine Goodness to a Starving Soul by Russ Masterson, a Burnside contributor. The book is being released by Tyndale today in a digital-only format through Amazon. — Day 27 155 pounds. I can now see day 40. Half of me loves...

My wife falls asleep immediately, head to the pillow, but I like to read myself into the dream world. I climb into bed and pull my headlamp over my curly hair. I aim the light at the pages and read the words working my way through the ink, a story bleeding from the author’s heart and honed by his mind....