I saw God today

Posted by Tim Jackson on January 29, 2010

Okay. I confess that I’m a fan of country music. I like a lot of different genres of music, but one of the things I like about country music are the stories told in the lyrics. There’s something powerful about a story.

So, why am I telling you this?

Well, George... Read More

Open

Posted by Jeff Olson on January 22, 2010

I recently read the book Open. It’s a fascinating and refreshingly candid autobiography of Andre Agassi, one of the best players to ever step foot on a tennis court.

After winning eight Grand Slam titles and earning millions of dollars, Agassi, (who was forced into playing... Read More

Haiti

Posted by Allison Stevens on January 18, 2010

To me, writing about anything other than what’s happening in Haiti seems trivial. 

If you watched the news last night, you saw bodies being taken away in front loading bulldozers. It was, as Michelle Obama describes it, heartbreaking.

I wonder about the children without... Read More

Wordless Prayer

Posted by Allison Stevens on January 4, 2010

Half-pint, Laura Ingalls’s, tells her mother in an episode of Little House on the Prairie that she has an essay to write for school, but that the words just won’t come out.  She explains to her mama that she has words in her head, but that she can’t get them onto the paper.
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