Vocation and Gods Will

The Problem with Prayer+

Just before her 15-year-old son was shot and killed not far from the Obama’s ‘Tony’ home in Chicago, Timika Ruteledge-German...

Decisions can be powerful. That’s why they are daunting, and occasionally paralyzing. Who should I marry? Who should I befriend?...

Martha Byrne delights in stories and so she reads them, edits them, writes them, and watches them play out in...

My husband and I stand on the bank of a creek in Mississippi. We are sweating. It’s early morning in...

We were praying for my friend, Billy, when Steve got a word from the Lord. We do this from time...

There’s a painting at my doctor’s office of a mountain goat leaping over a deep chasm. The goat stretches across,...

Pavlov’s dogs have nothing on my yellow lab. Every afternoon around 4, she scours the house intent to find someone,...

[Editor: This one of the top five most read posts on BreakfastReading. As we prepare for Advent, we thought it...

The reporter’s question caught me off guard: “So, were the other ‘friends’ in your article really you as well?” “No,...

It’s the dream of any basketball-obsessed kid. It’s practiced in gymnasiums and on driveways, and sometimes in bedrooms with a...