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In honor of National Donut Day, I thought I’d post an old essay of mine, the one that inspired the name of my old blog, The Whole Box of Donuts. Enjoy! If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven...

Perspective: an artistic technique used to portray depth, to project the illusion of a three-dimensional world onto a two-dimensional surface. In perspective, the straight edges of any object follow lines that eventually converge at infinity. Normally, this point of convergence is along the horizon. When grief is trying to claw its way out of your...

My friend Kelsey Timmerman, banana ninja and famed underwear journalist (he’s one of the top ten underwear journalists in the state of Indiana, I have been told), is author of Where Am I Wearing? and the soon-to-be-released Where Am I Eating? (Click any of those links to read all about his travels and insights as he...

Tyndale will be publishing The Art of Praying Upside Down in 2015! I’m feeling excited, nervous, overwhelmed and hopeful, all at once. I feel like God has thrown open the doors — and the windows — and said, GO! It’s time! You might need to remind me every once in a while what I wrote...

Tyndale will be publishing The Art of Praying Upside Down in 2015! I’m feeling excited, nervous, overwhelmed and hopeful, all at once. I feel like God has thrown open the doors — and the windows — and said, GO! It’s time! You might need to remind me every once in a while what I wrote...

It can be a bit intimidating to get started. That may be true in whatever it is that you’re doing, but especially if you’re creating art. That blank canvas… So much possibility. Possibility — or pressure? Depends on why you’re creating it, I suppose. If someone hired you to do a masterpiece, if you had a...