Bill Gates recently included a fascinating graphic on his blog to highlight the deadliness of mosquito borne illnesses, a problem the Gates Foundation is…
Vital Questions About Your Life
Discernment / Maturity and Flourishing / Spirituality
In a brief piece posted online on The Huffington Post (03/02/2014), Susie Moore, a life coach in New York City listed “5 Killer Life…
A Gentle Madness
Community / Family / Hospitality / Maturity and Flourishing / Ordinary Life / Work and Rest
“People have always collected things. Whether a vestige of our hunter-gatherer days, a need to forge order amid chaos, or a simple desire to…
I Really Like Your Shoes
The first year of The Exact Place being out there is done. There were a few fleeting moments when I thought this could turn…
Experimentation, Failure and Faith
When I was a boy I experimented with wood burning (an aunt gave me a set for my birthday), carpentry (I wanted to make…
When Creation Cries Out
Above me, in the boughs of a massive white pine a blue jay is objecting to my presence. He screams, flies off to do…
Imagination matters
Art / Maturity and Flourishing / Spirituality
One of the reasons I have sworn allegiance to Christ as king is that I believe the ancient prophets. Their words echo down the…
The Forbidden Bird (a short story)
Art / Culture / Ordinary Life
The Forbidden Bird Far beneath the gaze of perfect clouds drifting through a peerless twilight sky, there ran two children down a winding forest…
The Solace of Asparagus
Creation / Family / Hospitality / Safe Place / Spirituality
[Note: “This article originally appeared on June 19, 2009 in Comment, a publication of CARDUS: www.cardus.ca.”] The first meal I prepared for the man…
The Sorrow and Hope of Homeschooling
Community / Family / Spirituality
I’ve been reading biographical sketches of Christian women who lived in the late Roman Empire. A theme the sketches have in common is rejection:…