The idea of the scapegoat is still alive and well. Middle-schoolers are regularly assigned Shirley Jackson’s 1948 short story “The Lottery,” about a small…
There are many ways to acknowledge God in the ordinary rhythms of life. Some churches celebrate a Blessing of the Pets in springtime and…
Jesus took the ordinary stuff of life—a wedding, some jugs of water—and made it into something extraordinary by his presence and his miracle power….
Earlier in the book, James warns the reader to ask God for wisdom and not be “double-minded” (James 1:5, 8). Like Jo March in…
Blaise Pascal wrote, “No one is so happy as a true Christian, or so reasonable, virtuous, and lovable” (quoted in Peter Kreeft, Christianity for Modern…
