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A Song For Nagasaki The Story of Takashi Nagai Scientist, Convert, and Survivor of the Atomic Bomb by Paul Glynn I stayed up late a week ago to finish this astounding book, totally mesmerized.  I had never heard this story, or known almost anything about Christianity in Japan.  It is a tragedy that this man [...]

Tonight, while Brian spent yet another evening working on his new book, “Unconditional? The Call of Jesus to Radical Forgiveness”, I watched a documentary called “Forgiving Dr. Mengele.” Eva Kor and her sister Miriam were identical ten year old Jewish twins, and because they were twins they were yanked from their mother as they stood [...]

Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that it is. In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden part of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is [...]

The day before Easter had been sunny, warm and beautiful, a perfect spring day. I had hopes for the same on Easter Sunday, and was awake to watch the sunrise. Sunrise on that sad morning 2,000 years ago was when the earth shook and everything changed forever–sunrise was the moment the Son of God rose [...]

I can’t help remembering an episode of the reality TV show “I Shouldn’t Be Alive” I saw a couple of months ago. A man and a woman, beginning scuba divers, were left behind by their boat twenty miles out to sea. Swimming in the ocean and scuba diving freaks me out anyhow, not something I’m [...]

It was late Saturday afternoon when I started baking Philip’s birthday cake. I’d had a ton of things to do, was just finishing up a brief phone conversation with my mother in law, and mentioned that the next thing on my list was baking the cake. She laughed and said, “Don’t you just love being [...]

I arise today Through a mighty strength, the invocation of the Trinity, Through the belief in the threeness, Through the confession of the oneness Of the Creator of Creation. I arise today Through the strength of Christ’s birth with his baptism, Through the strength of his crucifixion with his burial, Through the strength of his [...]

The following quote is inscribed on the FDR Memorial in Washington DC. I have seen war, I have seen war on land and on sea. I have seen the blood running from the wounded. I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed, I have seen children starving. I have seen [...]

The Place Where We Are Right by Yehuda Amichai From the place where we are right Flowers will never grow In the spring. The place where we are right Is hard and trampled Like a yard. But doubts and loves Dig up the world Like a mole, a plow. And a whisper will be heard [...]

I love it when God makes His presence known to me in special ways—kisses from heaven. These kisses don’t come on a regular basis, and usually when I least expect them. But they are strong assurances that He is watching over me, He is a faithful God, well able to answer my prayers, and that [...]