Stop and Listen:: an interview with singer/songwriter Bethany Dillon
by Laurin Makohon
Twenty-one-year-old Bethany Dillon is an old soul. She’s deep, she’s fun, and she’s insightful. Her music is the result of journal entries having a run-in with an acoustic guitar—honesty and simplicity and beauty. Newly married to singer/songwriter Shane Barnard of Shane & Shane, God has been teaching Bethany a lot about Himself during her life transition—including how she needs to stop and listen. (more . . .) 

Passing Thru :: God's Faces
by Laurin Makohon    
 For the past few months, God has been showing me how much deeper He wants our relationship to go. It. Just. Blows. Me. Away. God is so wonderfully complex, but He wants each of us to know Him on so many different levels. So He has painted pictures of Himself in our lives—in every kind of relationship—so we can see and know Him more. Each kind of relationship—father, mother, friend, romancer—are to help us understand the seemingly un-understandable . . . Him. (more . . .)

Finding My Way :: Sleeping on a Nun
by Tim Baker
 The seat was so comfy, and it didn’t even bother me that I was barely 18 and heading off alone into the dark of night on a Greyhound bus. We drove for miles and miles and miles. Turns out, it’s a long drive from Chillicothe, Ohio, to Knoxville, Tennessee. Despite my bag filled with food and distractions, this was no way to spend Thanksgiving Day. (more . . .)