In honor of the recent Holocaust Memorial Day, I offer this reflection on my own emergence from the shadows of fear and hatred cast by my parents’ flight from the
The Bible gives us unequivocal promises that God will give us what we ask for—if we ask! “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find;
Dear Mark, There you are sitting in her bean bag chair in the corner of her living room. She couldn’t tell by looking at you but you feel like you’re
I need a breakthrough. The new year may feel like a fresh start, the slate wiped clean, but I’ve got the same problems I had before New Year’s Eve. The
Dear Tracy, I used to wish I could go back in time, to when you were very small, to when he started violating your six-year-old body for the first time.
Dear Jenny, You try to avoid mirrors, but instead, you feel drawn to them. Hard red bumps loom inevitably into view. Awful acne. You stare in dismay, wondering why you’re
Dear Anna, I vividly remember everything about this date. The deep connection you feel with this man. He’s an acquaintance you ran into 3,000 miles from home. He’s smart and
A few years ago, while I was on a dive trip to the “Big Island” of Hawaii, we heard talk of a shark that was unable to eat because a