Reading Time: 3 minutes So many stories about Mary the mother of Jesus portray her as angelically strong and a saint. But as a mother and widow how did she feel as she watched her son being crucified? My poem Mary’s Loss attempts to dig into her feelings of despair.
Reading Time: 6 minutes Rather than peering into a dark and dangerous future (which it often is), through God’s redemption of my pain, I see hope on each horizon.
Reading Time: 5 minutes One spring Saturday my younger brother and I slid onto the bench seat of my dad’s 1960 Chevy truck and …
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Reading Time: 5 minutes Father’s Day by it’s very nature is not all that jazzy of a holiday. Dad’s are really hard to buy …
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Reading Time: 5 minutes A few months after my dad’s funeral my mom took us to her dying cousin’s wedding. I was eleven and …
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Reading Time: 3 minutes By Eugene C. Scott God must not have studied grammar under the same crotchety English teachers I did. Over and …
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Reading Time: 4 minutes By Eugene C. Scott The desert had grown comfortable for Moses. After forty years of caring for Jethro’s sheep, he …
Reading Time: 3 minutes By Eugene C. Scott It’s true, like the old bumper sticker said, that “God Doesn’t Make Junk.” But after 50 …
Reading Time: 4 minutes By Eugene C. Scott Like J. K. Rowling’s wonderfully weird invention of Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Jelly Beans, her Hogwarts …
Reading Time: 4 minutes By Eugene C. Scott What if? “What if” is frequently the central question submerged in good fiction. C.S. Lewis asked, …
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