Hagar is my unlikely daily-life heroine. Why? Because she encounters God in the midst of a terrible day. Probably the worst day of her life. A little background: God promises Abram an heir; but as years tick by, no heir appears. Abram's wife Sarai takes matters into her own hands by offering her maidservant Hagar to him. She conceives, only to find Sarai...

"So God created mankind in His own image. In His own image He created them; male and female He created them." Famous words from Genesis chapter one. And ever since that day, I suppose, we men and women have been trying to figure each other out. Fairly unsuccessfully, I might add. Heather Goodman writes very seriously about what it means to be a...

Memories are fleeting things. They are notoriously inexact, and yet they are all we have tying us to the past. Children's memories are particularly suspect...or are they? Perhaps the memories of a child can point us in the direction of the most important things in life. Debbie Warnack, of GoodThoughts thinks so. Check out her latest posting. Our...

Maybe you haven't seen the wonderful interviews over at Spaghettipie yet. But her recent interview with Brenda Nixon takes things to a new level. Brenda offers some provocative advice like this: "The balance of grace and obedience is the same as balancing rules and relationship." And then she explains what potty training taught her about her...