By Steve Beard – Known as the shepherd to shepherds, Eugene Peterson – author of The Message, a contemporary Bible paraphrase that has sold millions of copies – died on Monday, October 22. He was 85 years old. One week prior to his passing, Peterson had entered hospice care. “During the previous days, it was […]

By Carolyn Moore – One does not need to be a feminist to be startled that there are 130 million school age girls around the globe who are not in school. While there are many reasons for that staggering number, it is still jarring. Or that two-out-of-three of the 774 million illiterate adults are women. […]

By Courtney Lott – Writing can be frustrating – even for the talented. In a moment of dramatic renunciation of her craft after multiple rejections of her manuscript, Madeleine L’Engle covered her typewriter. Very quickly she realized that, in spite of this gesture, her mind had already started planning a novel about failure. It was […]