“Imagine waiting until the minister says, ‘You may now kiss the bride,’ for your lips to meet your husband’s for the first time,” Carly said dreamily. We sat in a circle, cocooned in our sleeping bags on the church floor. Carly was the beautiful, vivacious older girl in our Pentecostal youth group, while I was…
Did you know that Martin Luther (1483-1546) was a tireless advocate for universal schooling for the young? He championed free schools for all children as an important aspect of public welfare. In his Letter to the Mayors and Aldermen of All Cities of Germany on Behalf of Christian Schools, he said: “What would it avail…
Michael Shoemaker is a gifted, rising voice from the mountain west. His first collection, Rocky Mountain Reflections, is a heartfelt, thoughtful and oftentimes powerful debut. An ecosystem of engaging poetry, prose, short stories and photography, this collection may grow your faith, feed your soul and nourish your belief in the goodness of the human condition….
Recently my 90-year-old mother completed a challenging 1000-piece puzzle, a collage of photos based on the Battle of Arnhem. The difficulty level sparked a real sense of accomplishment as the scenes emerged. Occasionally I’d help her; we’d whoop with abandon when an elusive piece was finally placed. Mom relished fitting in the odd colourful detail,…
One day, a strange box appears in the forest, a box that is “big enough for someone or something to fit inside. Big enough to hide in.” Bear, Fox, Squirrel, Hare, and Owl are curious about the two eye-like openings in the box, how the box got there, and when it arrived. When the box…
They’ve been dangling for weeks. If it was up to me, I’d have been on them in January, but the boss says it is better to keep ladder jobs until the end of winter. No point in slipping when you don’t have to. Still, all those forgotten strings of lights in the park are looking…
Sponsored Content: The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the organization and do not necessarily represent the editorial perspective of Christian Courier. Fiery Afflictions follows a character named Eunice Brown, a well-respected and admired professional figure in her community who faces multiple trials in her family life. Two separate generational perspectives in…
On the first page of her recently published memoir, You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith says, “I want to be clear about something: This isn’t a tell-all.” Rather, she describes the book as more like a “tell-some” or a “tell-mine” or a “find-mine.” Yet the “mine” keeps changing, she says, “because I…
I’m not exactly sure when it happened, but my mother has changed a lot. She used to be one of my favorite people. Now all she does is ask questions, try to micromanage my life, and embarrass me just by being who she is. Of course, she still throws in an occasional hug, which –…
In 1941, the poet W. H. Auden started writing a Christmas oratorio to be set to music by Benjamin Britten. He imagined it as a set of modern-day monologues voicing the perspectives of characters in the Christmas story and he shifted the setting to represent the world around him. The mood of the poem was…
The world of fantasy literature is usually regarded as the domain of children, but, as Jesus tells us, “whoever does not receive the Kingdom of God like a child will never enter it” (Mark 10:15). British author J.R.R. Tolkien is famous for The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1965), both later made…
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