Stories of Faith and Change

A branch can remain green for a while after it has been severed. But appearance is not life.

Elias Vale has built his career studying the decline and death of living things. A respected natural historian, he trusts evidence, reason, and what can be measured—and has little patience for the religious traditions surrounding the ancient Tree that...

What if some of the things weighing on you today are the very things you once prayed to receive?

Daniel Mercer is tired.

The house always needs something repaired. The truck needs maintenance. Work follows him home. His teenage son needs guidance, his grown daughter still calls for advice, his aging mother increasingly needs his help, and even a...

What happens to faith when Sunday morning finds you hundreds of miles from home?

For truck drivers, RV travelers, military personnel, traveling workers, caregivers, and countless others, life does not always cooperate with a church schedule. Sometimes worship happens far from a familiar congregation. Sometimes prayer happens behind a steering...

He once taught others to trust God. Then he buried his daughter—and walked away.

Michael Reeves was a devoted husband, father, and respected construction superintendent whose faith shaped nearly every part of his life. After the unexpected death of his seventeen-year-old daughter, Emily, the answers he once offered others no longer withstand the...