Healing Hereafter

I often walk outside in the evenings of summer to enjoy the starlit peace and cool, gentle breeze. As I was doing so tonight, however, the serenity was interrupted several times by the loud booms and crackles of fireworks in numerous places. Although annoyed at first, they were jarring enough to...

I just returned home from playing 18 holes of mini-golf with my wife and three other very special people (as pictured): my two sons and my 10 year-old mentee. Given the recent increase in very emotionally-charged conversations about race and the situation of black males in particular, I've thought...

Guess what? I got to do it again! Right after recently guest teaching a section of my big sis Ms. Sherrington's Creative Writing class, I had the privilege of doing it once more with her colleague's class as well. One of the best aspects of teaching is how much you learn, so instead of my lecture,...

So yesterday I found myself totally lost in convoluted hallways, marveling at how tall the lockers were, and my older sister was there with me in the same building. The last time that all happened, I was a 14 year-old freshman, so I was having some major dejavu! However, this time around, neither...

I love me some Emperor's New Groove! So in this scene we've got Pacha—suffering from a poverty of experience and resources—and we have Kuzco—suffering from a poverty of humility and compassion. For both intentional and unintentional reasons, they find themselves about to fall into an alligator...

I adamantly maintain that there are two transitions in life that teach you more than any others. The first is having a second child. The second is well, I won't say, because everyone has at least one uniquely educational transition that I don't know about! But back to the first one: the second...

There's a dude on the street corner wearing a big sign with flames on it telling you in a rather angry voice that you're going to Hell. Or maybe you're more familiar with the church folks who say all the right Christian things but exhibit lives that are less Christian than most of the...

This is probably the most difficult question I have come across studying the Bible, out of the hundreds I've written on. What I find interesting is how many folks seem to offer a very quick and definitive answer, except that half of them say yes and the other half say no! I am guilty of this...

Yep, there I am...well, my toes anyway. And yep, there's T-rex chomping at my poor digits with all the ferocity and determination of a 4-year-old. I'm not gonna lie, rubber T-rex bites can still be painful, but much less so when you're ready for them. But that's nothing compared to when my son...

For some, there's nothing more terrifying than the phrase "free will versus predestination." See, I already lost some of you. Whether it brings folks back to a sharp disagreement, to a religion course that significantly lowered their GPA, or to the point when their beliefs started becoming a lot...