It was twilight on the Front Range of the Colorado Rockies. I was on a prairie road, tired and heading home. The drive was uneventful until there was this brown chicken in the middle of the road. Obviously, the hen had been hit by a car. I whizzed by; it wasn’t road kill yet, sitting so…
It was a gift to experience a 44-hour prayer fast recently on Praise Mountain in the Rockies. No, this isn’t a blog entry to make you feel guilty about not fasting. Trust me, I am a lowly white belt in the spiritual discipline. And some of you know that Jesus instructs us to fast in secret….
C.S. Boyll note: William J. Petersen has been a longtime editor and journalist, writing over 30 books including one of my favorites: 25 Surprising Marriages: How Great Christians Struggled to Make Their Marriages Work. Some of his recent work (also, thumbs up) is a novella series, The Octogenarian Sleuth, inspired by his retirement community and bylined…