1. We have at least one thing going for us: we know the first of these two days —our birthday.
  2. My nonfiction reads took me into Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism, and various varieties of Protestantism. Some of my favorites didn’t fall into neat and tidy categories, such as Jordan Peterson and Richard Selzer. It was difficult to narrow the list down, but here are my 12 1/2 favorites of the year.
  3. Here is a lament I’ve written especially for victims of hurricanes. May it be for you, for your family, or for your church, a way to put into prayer the anguish of your souls.
  4. The little psychologist within us is often hard at work to pinpoint the origin of life’s problems.
  5. Dual narratives are unfolding in our lives at every moment. There’s the story we’re writing, and the one penned by the Spirit.
  6. This book tells of my long and brutal journey. From married to divorced. From a seminary professor and pastor to a disgraced, bitter truck driver in the oil fields of Texas. From a man at war with God to a child redeemed by grace.
  7. They stood on their feet, the Father's host, Alive in the Son and Holy Ghost.
  8. The table is full-laden; feast ye all sumptuously. The calf is fatted; let no one go hungry away.
  9. I love books. I love authors. I love the way putting words down on paper incarnates ideas that might otherwise remain ghosts of the mind, flitting here and there in our gray matter.
  10. Warning, Remember, O man, that thou art dust… And lust, he mocks in mute self-condemnation.
  11. As it turned out, the novels in which I had sought escape, became part of the means whereby the Lord rescued me from my own death.
  12. With but a donkey's jawbone He whacked a thousand men And iced yet even more
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