(2 minutes 38 seconds) Years ago, out of necessity but quite unceremoniously, I started jotting thoughts and reflections from Scripture in my online journal, tagging them “Hephzibah.” This habit of grace has become for me a soul-anchoring practice. I had stumbled, fallen and crawled, making…

(2 minutes, 50 seconds) I sadly learned this week that one of my favorite teachers died. He was only 71 years old. When I first met Mr. Schroeder in my 7th-grade science class, he was fresh out of college, in his early twenties, and my…