Spiritual Life Now
Devotional: Cookie Christianity
There are several ways in which becoming a quality cookie is (sorta) like becoming a quality Christian.
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Devotionals
Cookie Christianity
By Lainey S. Cronk
There are several ways in which becoming a quality cookie is (sorta) like becoming a quality Christian.
Elijah Takes up Track & Field
By Lainey S. Cronk
I took off like a shot. Me, my Adidas, and my agent Howie. Howie's feet started giving out after the first block, so I left him off at Aunt Margie's in Bershville and told him to keep out of sight for a couple months. And then I kept running.
Two Free Chairs
By Lainey S. Cronk
I was at a county meeting this one time where there was a lot of overflow and people had to go in various rooms and basements and watch the meeting on TV screens.
Campanile Views
By Lainey S. Cronk
My office is partway up a hillside. Down by the church there's this campanile (but most people think of it as a bell tower). It's tall and lanky and from here, it sticks up even a little higher than the hills.
Out with the Dunce Cap
By Lainey S. Cronk
Clyde and Howie, colleagues and cousins, were walking on the road above the Angwin airstrip one unseasonably warm day, when the topic of dunce caps came up.
When the Light Changes
By Lainey S. Cronk
It rained all day Monday. Then it rained all night, and the wind blew, so that the streams of roadside water were adrift with sticks and leaves.
Pocket Blessings
By Lainey S. Cronk
We forget about them sometimes, they're so small - so easily slid inside a coat pocket, so quickly passing. Small blessings.
Argyle Sweaters and REI Tents
By Lainey S. Cronk
Most of us have participated in the middle-class America gift-giving scene. The annual strain of trying to figure out what on earth to get Mom for Christmas.
What Do Our Lives Seem Like to God?
By Tim Mitchell
On a recent Saturday night I was returning from a beach trip spent with our elementary school families. When I resumed speed after a four-way stop at the edge of Calistoga…
Serenity
By Peter Katz
The morning breaks in lilting shades of grey
Among the effervescent waking sound
God of All Seasons
By Jessica Shine
For a California girl, Michigan winters can be harsh. I remember my first exposure to the culture, when a well-meaning friend asked whether I had ever been through a Michigan winter.