December is one of the darkest months of the year. Days are shorter, mornings are darker, and grey clouds are often a fixture. With this change in weather comes what doctors call seasonal affective ...

I’m not a softhearted poet. I’m not a people-pleasing idealist. I live with full-throttle ambition and no shortage of self-interest. I’m impatient and sometimes insecure. I jockey for position and I ...

Raising children to love like Jesus did. I am the child of Christian parents who were deeply committed to raising kids who care about others. My dad was a pastor and we were homeschooled, but my ...

One of my dearest friends, a retired teacher of German descent, tutors children at an urban school. Once, while working on reading with an 8-year-old African American child, they shared a book about ...

This past weekend, a group of us gathered in the Poconos near East Stroudsburg, Pa., for a simple weekend retreat, "Jesus the Peacemaker." We looked at general themes of peacemaking in his life, then ...