For my birthday recently a friend from work gave me, as a joke—at least I think it was a joke (I mean, I’m not really that kind of girl), a copy of the National Enquirer. The cover story was “John Edwards caught cheating again!” Also on the cover, in smaller type, was a teaser about a follow-up...

Bobby’s small group goes for donuts every Thursday evening, to a small, local shop, next to a gas station, where they make fresh donuts every day. We go right around the time all the treats are being pulled from the fryers, being laid out in the case; and, for the last few weeks Levi has been fasting...

As creator of The OOZE, Spencer Burke is usually the one pitching questions to some of today’s most prominent voices affecting the church in transition, from Shane Clayborne to Phyllis Tickle. But when Burke made a recent swing through Portland conducting interviews for THEOOZE.TV, he took time to...

My dad wasn’t always there. He was around and fatherly for my childhood but relatively absent for most of my teenage years. He regrets missing those irreplaceable moments of first dates and first cars, and we’ve reconciled since those vacant years but neither of us can get them back. I tell you that...