Parker, 8 Easter blessings! This is one of my favorite holidays, and not just because of the outfits and the candy. Easter is one of my favorite stories. Like all good stories, it is filled with beauty and mystery. There is pain, sacrifice, death. Our hero is triumphant. But above all, to me, Easter is a perfect love story. One of my favorite Easter memories involves my son Parker. He was about 3 when he heard the crucifixion story at his pre-school. He could not wait to shar

opinion piece suggesting that churches – and Christians – need to practice what they preach when it comes to loving one another. I have had the opportunity to meet Smith a time or two over the years, and his wife, Carla, played a significant part in my life-changing Emmaus experience a decade ago. I truly believe that he wants people to come together as one and be the body of Christ. But I fear some of his words calling for racial unity will make readers forget all his other

“Starbucks removed Christmas from their cups because they hate Jesus,” he wrote, asking followers to use the hashtag #MerryChristmasStarbucks and to ask baristas to write “Merry Christmas” on their cups instead of their names. A friend wanted to know if other Christians really thought this might be true. No, this Christian does not. But I will tell you who IS taking Christ out of Christmas: Joshua Feuerstein. Joshua has forgotten what Christmas is about. Christmas is not abou