Listen on Apple, Spotify, and wherever you listen to podcasts. The Good Books, Big Questions podcast returns for season 2, beginning March 2, 2026. The podcast continues its commitment to bold, loving, and sensible conversations about faith—creating space for honest dialogue around the questions that shape belief, doubt, and discipleship. Listeners are invited back into

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Leaders ultimately are judged by their actions, which Jesus teaches flow from the heart. Some of the stuff that came out of my dad’s junkyard would have made Dr. Frankenstein proud (and I have a lot of great junkyard stories in my book, Salvaged). Like the Ford station wagon painted lime green—with a large plastic frog

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I was in seventh grade when Mom and Dad bought a run-down cattle ranch about thirty miles northeast of San Jose. Besides the sprawling but neglected ranch house, there were acres of rolling hills, fenced pastures, and decrepit fruit trees, along with a seasonal creek. With just one brief excursion to Oklahoma, I had lived

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To study the Bible or to take a class on prayer or discuss compassion for the poor—but not do anything about what one has learned—is a waste. The Word of God holds up a mirror in which we can see our own face: our character, values, attitudes, and habits. It offers an opportunity to compare

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In some small-group discussions, people like to leap into discussing what a passage of the Bible or a chapter of a book means to them personally without examining what it says. Such discussions can quickly lose sight of the topic or passage you’re studying. By zeroing in on the details—characters, events, setting, key words, and

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