For many years I wrote about fiction, story, belief, ordinary life, and the questions that shaped my work. More than two thousand essays remain here—not because every one represents my current thinking, but because together they tell the story of a writer learning over time.
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How Southern Baptist pastor Heath Lambert is leaving nothing to chance
Here’s the link to this article. Gosh, how could it ever backfire for this pastor to demand his members undergo a culture-war loyalty test? So many ways by CAPTAIN…
How Christians reframe prayer to sound exciting and effective
For decades, Christians have lamented their inability to pray regularly. And for decades, they’ve tried dishonest reframing to make prayer sound infinitely more exciting and effective than it…
Here’s the link to this article. May 12, 2018 Do anomalies prove the existence of God? This op-ed was originally published on Slate.com as part of a Big Ideas series…
Richard L. Fricks 