by Amanda Cox   I’ve always enjoyed the outdoors, whether backpacking in the Smoky Mountains or strolling around my own backyard. Nature...

by Jamie Erickson   I sat across from a young mom in a hipster coffee shop, the kind that serves deconstructed breakfast sandwiches in a...

by Katie Powner   I’ve been a foster parent for almost ten years, and it would be an understatement to tell you it’s been a life-changing...

by Elizabeth Brady   In 1990-91 I served as a short-term missionary in Burkina Faso, West Africa, in a bush village called Fada N’Gourma,...

by Roseanna M. White   When I learned about the now-infamous book burnings of 1933 in Germany, I was partly horrified and partly...

by Jennifer L. Wright   Last Light Over Galveston wasn’t a book I had planned on writing.   I had actually been working on another book...

by Glenna Marshall   In the middle of the Bible, near the end of Psalms, we find the answers to our questions about God’s love for us....

by Donna Snow When the Lord commissioned Joshua to lead the Israelites into the Promised Land, it was no small assignment. Moses was...

by Jerry B. Jenkins   When my wife’s and my eldest child, Dallas, was born, I invested a moment gazing into a mirror in the labor room,...

by Robin Thomson   “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day’s own trouble be...

by Grace Fox Sooner or later, we all experience a hard place in life where we feel lonely, weary, or scared. Our human bent dislikes and...

by Dana Mentink   The Lord watches over His sheep, even the silliest one that meanders over hill and dale, completely oblivious to their...

by Angela Carlisle   I have a lot in common with Allye, the heroine of Shadowed Witness . We both love tea, knitting, and caring for the...

by Sara Brunsvold   “Have you ever had something you’ve always wanted to do? An idea that wouldn’t leave you alone? An experience you...

What resilient women and failed rebellions can teach us about each other by Christine Hill Suntz   On January 1, 2021, I made a...

by Shelley Shepard Gray   I do love when a story revolves around two people from completely different worlds. It’s a common storyline in...

by Robin Jones Gunn   Norman Rockwell’s side-by-side painting entitled Going and Coming reminds me of childhood trips to the beach. The...

by Shannon Sue Dunlap   “Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.” (Proverbs 13:12, NIV)   Forty...

by Jane Kirkpatrick   “I have your next story!” She stood in line at the Woodland, Washington’s Hulda Klager Lilac Gardens to have me...

by Henry O. Arnold   In the early years of my theatre training, I read Christopher Marlowe’s play Dr. Faustus . It was one of my first...