My tail!
One of my favorite scenes in C.S. Lewis's Prince Caspian, is when the ever-chivalrous mouse, Reepicheep, mortally wounded in battle, is brought (lying on a…
Evergreen
My office faces the woods. There's a tall-as-me pine tree in the foreground--in the middle of the bushes before the trees. In the winter he…
Sufficient
"Welcome, Prince," said Aslan. "Do you feel yourself sufficient to take up the Kingship of Narnia?""I--I don't think I do, Sir," said Caspian. "I'm only…
Affirmation
Sam Crabtree's Practicing Affirmation is excellent. He argues that the normal drift of our lives pushes us toward correction and criticism and away from encouragement…
Past, present, future
"When I was called to be president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, I had never served as a professor, a dean, or a vice…
“Don’t be hasty”
My children love Treebeard from J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. He's an ancient tree who walks and talks. When he rescues two hobbits,…
Grand highway
I wrote here about my surprising journey into Church History. That post also relays C.S. Lewis's thoughts on the importance of reading the past in…
Indecisiveness
Milk chocolate or dark chocolate? Accept the invitation or decline? Take the dream job far away or stay close to the familiar? A huge chunk…
Advice and warnings
Middle-age is disorienting. You arrive at this place where you shift from mostly asking questions to mostly answering questions. This is not to say that…
Crawfish boil
One of the things we loved about living in Dallas was experiencing the Cajun influence. One day, our Pastor invited us over to his house…