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Mar 1, 2011 Essay Letters to the Young

Editorial: Apprenticeship by Correspondence

Those of us a little further down the road know that we could do nothing better than pour ourselves into this task, for the young come to the world with wonder, feel intensely the heartbreak of its brokenness, and still manage to muster kingdom-sized hope. We need...

Mar 1, 2011 Essay Letters to the Young

Letter to a Young Parent

Liam might break your heart. Actually, Liam is going to break your heart. Somehow. Somewhere. Maybe more than once. To become a parent is to promise you’ll love prodigals.

Mar 1, 2011 Essay Letters to the Young

Letter to a Young High School Teacher

First and foremost, students need hospitable teachers who love their students, love learning, and love sharing their knowledge.

Mar 1, 2011 Essay Letters to the Young

Letter to a Young Writer

If the salt loses its saltiness, if you as a writer only scratch the surface of the world instead of digging deeply into life on this earth, your stories won’t stay on the table but be thrown out into used book bins.

Mar 1, 2011 Essay Letters to the Young

Letter to a Young Scientist

Science is not for the faint of heart.

Mar 1, 2011 Essay Letters to the Young

What’s the Use of Stories That Aren’t Even True?

Christians are not called primarily to rules or beliefs, but to a community of faith within a great narrative.

Feb 11, 2011 Essay

Writing to Remember

As the years went by and my journalling continued, the days were noticed and remembered. Instead of fading with the passage of time, they were preserved. They had meaning.

Jan 14, 2011 Essay

What Won’t Make the Headlines: A Client-Centred Approach to Microfinance

How will microfinanciers survive the interest-rate scandals dogging their sector?

Dec 3, 2010 Essay

On Christian Literature

We often demand that so-called “Christian” fiction or poetry be as unambiguous as a Gospel tract. The result is a novel or a poem that is not a very good novel or poem.

Dec 1, 2010 Essay Faithful living

Beauty Where We Dwell

We want our home to tell people who we are, who and what we love, and where we’ve been.

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Editorial: Apprenticeship by Correspondence

Letter to a Young Parent

Letter to a Young High School Teacher

Letter to a Young Writer

Letter to a Young Scientist

What’s the Use of Stories That Aren’t Even True?

Writing to Remember

What Won’t Make the Headlines: A Client-Centred Approach to Microfinance

On Christian Literature

Beauty Where We Dwell

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