[Guest: Kristi Cain] Leaving 2020
Twenty-twenty is over. Finally.
[Guest: Rachel Lulich] The Reading Life
I was a very slow reader. I hated being called on to read aloud in first and second grade, maybe as much as I hated playing the publically humiliating math game, Around the World. I wasn’t good at reading, and I didn’t enjoy it. But my mom worked patiently with me at home and I…
[Guest: J. M. Hackman] Wonder Woman
I’ve always admired Wonder Woman. The female superhero is kind, beautiful, and strong—everything we’re told we can be. Her daring weekly escapades filled my television screen as I grew up. I could be Wonder Woman. I could defeat evil (and those school bullies). I just needed a red, white, and blue bathing suit and a…
[Patricia Lee] Searching for Thankfulness
As the year 2020 nears its end, many of us sigh in relief. The past several months have been filled with one crisis after another, from COVID-19, to congressional antics, to claims of election fraud. We, as a nation, are anxious for the curtain to fall on this chapter of our history. Lock the door.…
[Jeanette-Marie Mirich] A Wild Call
The Earth is the Lord’s, And the fullness thereof; The world, and they that dwell therein. For he hath founded it upon the seas, And established it upon the floods. Psalm 24:1&2 A Psalm of David. The sirens’ call of the ocean began when I was a toddler seeing the Pacific for the first time.…
[Linda Thompson] Reflections on V-J 75 and WWII’s End: Why Is America Worth Preserving?
Reinforcements wade ashore at Saipan, June 1944 Today marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of a momentous occasion. When the Emperor of Japan announced his nation’s surrender on August 15, 1945, the deadliest war in history finally drew to a close. And yet, given the challenges we face in the here and now, I am concerned this…
[Sara Davison] To Write or Not to Write About a Pandemic
Sara Davison offers encouragement that we can face all trials through the strength God provides.
[Guest: A. C. Williams] Don’t Be an Ostrich
Do you ever get tired of being a grown up? I sure do. I have moments when I just wish I could go back to the joy of my childhood when I didn’t know anything. So often, we equate joy with blissful ignorance. Why is that? Personally, I’ve never found ignorance to be all that…
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