A year ago, I walked away from academia after fifteen years to become a full-time homeschooling mother and a freelance writer. I was sure that the first of these would go well. I had doubts about the second, and that possibility was making me a bit verklempt. I had been
Forgiveness is a poetic act. I am going to explain and support this claim in various ways, but here at the start, I want to turn to an unlikely source, the ancient and very pagan epic poet Homer. Forgiveness would seem to be a fundamentally Christian practice—“if you forgive others
By Ryan Danker — We all know the words of his hymns. For anyone in the Wesleyan movement and many beyond, his words speak to our experience of conversion, assurance, and even sanctification. Of course, I’m not talking about John Wesley. I’m talking about his younger brother, Charles. Charles Wesley’s