Author Archives: Foxworld

Paul: Integrity Stamped by Suffering

Reading in 2 Timothy this morning, I’m struck by these words of Paul to the young pastor he loved like a son: “Do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord or of me his prisoner. Rather, join with … Continue reading

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For the Love of a Tree

Across the stream behind my late-boyhood home in Cascade, Michigan, there stretched a forest where hepaticas bloomed purple and pink in the spring, profusions of trilliums scattered like popcorn beneath the understory, and colonies of downy rattlesnake plantain and shining … Continue reading

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What Only Children See

August 20, 2016: I just got back from the movie theater. For me tonight, the choice was between Ben Hur and Pete’s Dragon. I chose Pete’s Dragon. And I am glad. We grown-up, preoccupied adults, so caught up in the … Continue reading

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