Sacred Meditations

Infinite Love in Little Hearts

Infinite Love in Little Hearts

Have you ever tried to pour the ocean into a teacup? It sounds absurd, of course. Not merely because you have no means of pouring an ocean, but on account...

Infinite Love in Little Hearts

Have you ever tried to pour the ocean into a teacup? It sounds absurd, of course. Not merely because you have no means of pouring an ocean, but on account...

The Economics of Empty Hands

The Economics of Empty Hands

Have you ever stood in your kitchen the night before payday, opened the refrigerator, and done that mental arithmetic we all know too well? Half a carton of eggs, a...

The Economics of Empty Hands

Have you ever stood in your kitchen the night before payday, opened the refrigerator, and done that mental arithmetic we all know too well? Half a carton of eggs, a...

The Inch That Becomes a Mile

The Inch That Becomes a Mile

There is a peculiar thing about a single drop of ink in a glass of water. Watch it long enough, and you will see it spread, twist, and curl through...

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The Inch That Becomes a Mile

There is a peculiar thing about a single drop of ink in a glass of water. Watch it long enough, and you will see it spread, twist, and curl through...

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The Counterfeit and the Communion

The Counterfeit and the Communion

Have you ever bitten into a piece of fruit at the grocery store that looked perfect on the outside—glossy, plump, the very picture of an apple in a child's storybook—only...

The Counterfeit and the Communion

Have you ever bitten into a piece of fruit at the grocery store that looked perfect on the outside—glossy, plump, the very picture of an apple in a child's storybook—only...

The Sanitized Gospel

The Sanitized Gospel

There’s a peculiar genre of fiction that has emerged in recent years called “clean fiction.” The premise sounds noble enough: stories without profanity, without graphic violence, without anything that might...

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The Sanitized Gospel

There’s a peculiar genre of fiction that has emerged in recent years called “clean fiction.” The premise sounds noble enough: stories without profanity, without graphic violence, without anything that might...

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Beyond the question of "Am I saved?"

Beyond the question of "Am I saved?"

Imagine a man who has worked for the same company for forty years. One day a friend asks him, “Why do you stay? The pay isn’t great, the hours are...

Beyond the question of "Am I saved?"

Imagine a man who has worked for the same company for forty years. One day a friend asks him, “Why do you stay? The pay isn’t great, the hours are...