Integration of the 12 Steps into one’s life is the spiritual task and opportunity of this moment, of any moment.   Ordinarily, in church and...

I’m often befuddled by how impossible it is to write on the experience I’ve had countless times — joy in suffering.  It frustrates me that I...

Entitlement is a funny word.  In a concrete sense, it depicts what we deserve — what we’re entitled to.  But when we take the word from noun...

Encountering moments of truth is not always a pleasant experience.  One such recent moment I was acting out of self-righteous hurt in a rela...

Hebrews 12:2 says in part, “For the joy set before him he endured the cross.”   The only time I knew my faith pleased God was when I respond...