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“Has your book been successful?” It’s a question I get asked regularly these days when I tell strangers that I am a writer? And I’m never quite sure how to respond. I could say, “No. It has sold less than 2,000 copies,” and that would be a true (although a bit of a conversation stopping)…

The Easter bunny didn’t visit our house yesterday, but we did eat chocolate eggs and drink some champagne. I have a new post at Christianity Today thinking through my responses to “American Easter” and Christian Easter.” It’s called “Caught Between the Easter Bunny and the Empty Grave,” and it begins: For two weeks now, our…

It’s a day of waiting. A day between the cross and the resurrection. The place many of us live most of the time. My friend Ellen Painter Dollar has written a beautiful and profound essay exploring the reality of Easter hope in the midst of reasons to despair. I recommend it highly, and hope you’ll…

“…faith comes and goes. It rises and falls like the tides of an invisible ocean. If it is presumptuous to think that faith will stay with you forever, it is just as presumptuous to think that unbelief will…” (Flannery O’Connor, The Habit of Being, 452). Whenever people ask me my denominational affiliation, I answer, “I’m…
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