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Someone had been thinking of me. Preparations had been made for my coming. I felt welcomed, important. A menu had been planned. Food had...

Things don’t always go smoothly. Michael Bortman’s auto parts store was having a particularly snake-bitten day. Customer after customer...

What would you think if God called you into his office? Would it feel like the most frightening place you’ve ever had to appear? Like...

“Gotcha nose!” Dad would say as he pulled his half-covered thumb away from my face. I’m not sure why that was funny when I was a kid, but...

My imaginary cousin Willie Wally Wishum is often the butt of jokes. For example, he was enjoying his first ever comedy show until a...

Gaps! They’re everywhere, and I can’t seem to get rid of them. They showed up in the new moldings I installed in a bathroom-remodeling...

Would you like to learn a profound, theological truth that could forever change your life?Go to the cereal aisle. Yes, the cereal aisle....

Thump. Thump. Thump. It’s 4:00 A.M. on a Friday morning. I do NOT want to be awake! But that noise is driving me crazy. It sounds like a...

I felt an old, familiar panic. “Where am I, and how did I get here?” I wondered. The feeling was familiar from a long ago summer. I was...

At the root of America’s failures is the failure of its fathers. Our test scores lag in school, not because of a faulty faculty, but...