Although widespread despair is a given, Enger reminds readers of what’s still to cherish.
Mark HiskesDecember 4, 2024
I’m no theologian, but I am a Bible-reading Christ follower, and after rereading the gospels recently, I can’t cite an instance where Jesus meets needy people honestly seeking him and keeps them away: Samaritans, prostitutes, lepers, adulterers, demon-possessed, tax collectors, prodigal sons. Regardless of their sins or ailments or reputations, he opens the gate to every one of them. It’s the Pharisees and, sometimes, the over-zealous disciples he reprimands for trying to close it.
Mark HiskesJune 3, 2024
In a world ravaged by racism, it’s love like Esther Honey’s that we’re called to, and it’s Apple Island we long for.
Mark HiskesMarch 6, 2024
With The River We Remember, his latest stand-alone novel, William Kent Krueger has crafted a story as engaging as any he’s written, though not as memorable as This Tender Land.
Mark HiskesJanuary 3, 2024
Written and edited by seven Biblical scholars with an excellent foreword by Stanley Hauerwas, each chapter is steeped in Biblical scholarship but written for a wide audience.
Mark HiskesNovember 29, 2023
I wondered what it does to a kid growing up with a horizon of wall, day after day. I wondered which country the massive white message in bold white letters embedded on the mountainside beyond Juarez was for: "la Biblia es la verdad, leela.” “The Bible is the truth. Read it.”
Mark HiskesApril 17, 2023
We must do something, because trusting teachers and nurturing trust in the classroom is vital to the survival of real education. This is especially critical in Christian communities, where our concerns for building bridges of love between people is our godly calling.
Mark HiskesAugust 22, 2022
What if diplomas were earned for the second definition of the verb "graduate" ...
Mark HiskesJune 14, 2022
Then I saw the tree—dead, fallen years before, limbs snapped raw like broken bones, its trunk a shroud-less corpse still teeming with life.
Mark HiskesJuly 20, 2021