The president, vice-president, and cabinet secretaries need to be clear voices for religious freedom, engaging leaders and the peoples of the world. And they need to insist that countries that violate the religious freedom of their citizens live up to the international agreements most of them have already signed. If you’re like me, you typically... Continue Reading

I don’t interpret my kids’ rejection of certain foods as a failing grade on my “good mother” report card. I am, for the moment, free of food-related anxiety… ‘Tis the season of dietary overindulgence, which starts with Halloween and lasts through New Year’s Day, when many resolve to undo the damage inflicted by too many... Continue Reading

R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, has said he agrees that yoga is Hindu — and cited that as evidence that the practice imperiled the souls of Christians who engage in it. Yoga is practiced by about 15 million people in the United States, for reasons almost as numerous —... Continue Reading

There’s nothing quite like the feeling of coming home for Christmas every year. When you walk in the door and smell the candles and the aroma coming from the oven you know you’re home again. And the memories come flooding in until you feel like you were never really gone. The closest I come to... Continue Reading

“The sinfulness of sin” sounds like a vacuous redundancy that adds no information to the subject under discussion. However, the necessity of speaking of the sinfulness of sin has been thrust upon us by a culture and even a church that has diminished the significance of sin itself. Sin is communicated in our day in... Continue Reading

Though it may sound like too much of a generalization, it seems that older generations need to rediscover grace while younger generations need to rediscover holiness. I started working with younger men and women (campus ministry) when I was turning fifty. A decade later, I see how this work has transformed my perspective on the... Continue Reading

Gratitude is spiritual warfare. I’m convinced my turn of imagination that day was conviction of sin, a personal uprooting of my own idolatry by the Spirit of Christ. What I need to fear most is what seems normal to me. “If I hear the word ‘Daddy’ again, I’m going to scream!” I heard myself saying... Continue Reading

What I didn’t know was that as Brian Kelso felt the dark night of the soul in a way that surpasses our common usage of that phrase, where he knew “the valley of the shadow of death,” as he preaches now, his body also battled the necessarily dangerous drugs that were being given to him... Continue Reading

My husband and I both found that we have many forefathers and foremothers who started out in Virginia, even some at Jamestown. As we celebrate the Thanksgiving Day, the Great Falls Connection has asked area residents to respond to the following three questions: 1) What will you give thanks for this Thanksgiving? 2) What are... Continue Reading

I think that times like these, time of economic and political upheaval, pricking our consciences, calls us to hear, or at least to listen. And Thanksgiving is that annual time when we as Americans seek out each other, and if we don’t know why, that is why. First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ... Continue Reading