Reading Time: 3 minutes Philip Yancey’s book Prayer: Does It make Any Difference? opens with this: “When a doctoral student at Princeton asked, …
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Reading Time: 5 minutes Prayer is to our relationship with God as sex is to a relationship with a spouse. Like sex, prayer can skim along the surface and be about what you get out of it. Or it can be intimate, vulnerable, passionate, diving deep into the mystery of two becoming one.
Reading Time: 5 minutes The experts say washing your hands and keeping social distance are key to staying physically healthy in this crisis. Amen! But are there less obvious, more abstract daily disciplines that will help us navigate these turbulent and dangerous times?
Reading Time: 2 minutes Chloe Hawker wrote the stirring poem below about her mother’s, Lisa Hawker, influence on her. The imagery is surprising and …
Reading Time: 4 minutes I live in Colorado. I’m not bragging. Just sayin’. 19th Century Denver entrepreneur Frederick Bonfils once crowed, “‘Tis a privilege …
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Reading Time: 4 minutes By Eugene C. Scott My doctor glanced down at my chart. “Did anyone tell you you have type 2 diabetes?” …
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Reading Time: 3 minutes By Eugene C. Scott What do the TV shows “Seinfeld,” “I Love Lucy,” “Cheers,” and “Friends,” all have in common? …
Reading Time: 4 minutes Today’s guest blogger, Brendan Scott, is my son and the quasi-instigator of this “living spiritually” experiment. He gave me a journal for …
Reading Time: 4 minutes By Eugene C. Scott The following is a fictionalized version of a true story I read in one of the …
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Reading Time: 4 minutes Looking back I don’t know how we hadn’t lost our house. My mom had tried to sell our simple suburban …