When God Seems Silent
Of all the ways God speaks, the one I like least (and fear most) is his silence. The absence of his voice seems to come at the moments I most …
Archives for June 2016
Hearing God: Learning to Recognize His Voice in Meditation
“God speaks time and again—in various ways—but nobody notices” (Job 33:14). Core to the nature of the human race is a desire to hear God. Well, more …
Hearing God: Conversation Is the Point
When I was growing up, my dad taught me to sail our small Sunfish sailboat. We took month-long summer vacations, and we always camped on lakes, so we …
Courage and Cowardice
The worst riot in Detroit’s history broke out the summer of 1967: forty-three people were killed and over eleven hundred injured. As the violence …