By Lydia Klingforth The boyfriend was abusive. He beat her up badly enough, often enough, that her friends could see the bruises. Yet she dated him for seven years. The girl’s friends were relieved at the end of that relationship. But her mother was disappointed. “Why did you break up with him?” she told her […]

Do the prevailing circumstances in our world not feel like the very foundations are being shaken? In Psalm 46, the writer paints a picture of serious instability. He depicts mountains, the very symbol of stability, being uprooted from their foundations and tossed into a raging sea. What a frightening image of catastrophic proportions!  Similarly, our […]

You might recall these words from the opening paragraph of Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season […]