A warning about a prayer that arrives with an excuse On 6 October 2026, a city council meeting in Ottumwa, Iowa, opened with a prayer. The man at the microphone was not the mayor. He was a resident, a former council member, and a member of The Satanic Temple. He asked the room to stand.…
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The Room Paul Was Writing Into Women Likewise What Paul asked of the servants in Ephesus, and why a woman of tested character still has a place in that work. A woman can sit through a sermon on deacons and leave unsure whether the door was opened or shut. The preacher reads 1 Timothy 3.…
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There are two sentences a man can hear from God, and they do not cancel each other. Nathan the prophet looked at a king who had taken a woman and arranged a death, and he said, “The Lord also has put away your sin.” In the same breath he said the sword would not leave…
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A stranger came up the boards with a case in his hand. He did not start with a fist. He started with an invitation. Come and hear what I can do. That is an old way in. Pride first, played fast. Then a shortcut that glitters. Then fear, when the other two have not moved…
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A church can keep quiet and call the quiet peace. We will not. This is not a word about a party. It is not a forecast with a year written on it. It is a warning. Canada has made a way to end a life on purpose, with a form, a second signature, and a…
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She was a young mother, and the night was not finished with her After the birth she left her body. That is how she has always told it. Not a dream she climbed out of in the morning. A leaving. She went down the halls of the hospital and saw the night shift at their…
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The first seat was never yours A word for anyone who learned that looking after yourself first is wisdom — and for the climber who made a god of their own name. They sold me a gospel with a mirror in it. That is not a small sentence. A lot of us were raised on…
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A feeling is not a covenant. A word for the husband or wife waiting to feel like staying — and for anyone who learned that love is weather. I know this house when the lamps are low. That is where a marriage actually lives. Not in the photograph from the day you said the words.…
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God closed the case. The second judge is often you A word for the recent convert who can finally see who they were — and cannot sit still under the pardon. The first clean morning after you come to Christ is not always peace. Sometimes it is sight. You wake up and the old life…
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