There is something melancholy, poignant, and utter recognizable in Vicki Feaver’s poem “Coat.” She names an experience that we have all had, or at least can imagine: giving up on someone we once loved from the desire to be free, only to discover that freedom can be pretty...

Again the high priest asked him, “Are you the Messiah, the Son of the Blessed One?” Jesus said, “I am; and
’you will see the Son of Man
seated at the right hand of the Power’,
and ‘coming with the clouds of heaven.’”
Then the high priest tore his clothes and said,...

Jim LePage is a graphic designer. He’s also a Christian who has tried, and failed, several times to read the whole Bible. His solution – marry his passion (visual design) and his desire (read the Bible) by coming up with a design for each book of the Bible. The result is rather...

Then the high priest stood up before them and asked Jesus, “Have you no answer? What is it that they testify against you?” But he was silent and did not answer. We like to think of the four Evangelists as something like a first-century Action News camera team, roving around...

To get anything done, you have to be willing to say both “yes” and “no.” The “yes” is not just to a project or idea or request. If it’s important, then the “yes” is also to risk, to the unknown, to the possibility of failure. But once you say “yes” you also  have to say...