I’m getting married in 78 days. Most of the time, that reality hasn’t fully settled in on me. If you’d have asked me ten years …

Houston, Texas, the fourth (soon to be third) largest city in U.S., recently became the most ethnically diverse city in our country. My hometown’s booming …

“Oh, your dad’s a pastor?” he asked. “Is it a missionary Baptist church?” I smiled at the questioner, shaking my head. “No, it’s a Reformed …

Last summer, I went to a classical education conference in Moscow, Idaho. Now, many are unfamiliar with the city of Moscow, Idaho, but, for the …

“How many kids are in your family?” I always brace myself for the shocked response to my reply: “There are nine of us.” I never …

I folded myself into the comfortable kitchen chair, legs dangling, head inclined towards my two chosen companions for the post-Memorial Day feast, the 85-year-old grandmother and …

In Chapter 4 of United, Trillia talks about how the Lord answered her prayers for relationships in an unexpected way. When she felt isolated in …

I remember the first time my mom ever had my brother and I sit down and watch Eyes On The Prize during black history month. …

I grew up in predominately white congregations and classrooms before becoming a homeschooled foreigner living in Oxford, England when I was ten. I always felt …

“You don’t even act black.” In United Trillia shares that, as a teen, she was often labeled as “acting white.” Because of her intonation and …

One of my favorite movies when I was a kid was Rogers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella. Not a recording of Julie Andrews on Broadway, guys, but …

“What do you want to do, be like Jasmine? She’s just a teacher, she makes hardly anything. She’ll get married and stay home and disappear.” …

Revelation 5:19 talks about the great multitude of heaven, painting a beautiful tapestry of God’s creative work and his redemptive plan for panta ta ethne… …

I remember the first time I ever realized that a story could center around somebody who looked like me. I was in fourth grade at …

Pop threw up his hands in disgust, prompted by the third Valentine’s Day movie release advertisement that evening: “This is why young people can’t get …

The right wing conservatives think it’s a decision/ And you can be cured with some treatment and religion/ Man-made rewiring of a predisposition/ Playing God, aw nah here …

I can’t read it without my heart picking up its pace, my ears pulsing with the swell of the applause I would have heard had …

“You’ll be okay. You just have to learn that you’re worth more than settling on a weak man. If he can’t sweep you off your …

The first thing you would probably notice about Joseph Solomon is that he’s tall. Really tall. At six foot, seven inches, he tends to stand …

Several years ago, a friend of mine asked me for my opinion on a fiction manuscript. While I had many things to say about it, …