Former American Press staff writer Sunny Brown Farley writes "Naked Faith," a look at faith in its natural form: lived out in the day-to-day lives of ordinary people.

Up

Up is a movie about an adventure and an old man.

This man, and the wife he adored, dreamed of traveling Lost Land in South America from the time they were kids. They saved for it, they kept a scrapbook for it with a map and pictures, but they never actually went.

Meanwhile they lived a [...]

Those Who’ve Gone Before

This week, my husband and son and I went on a family vacation to San Marcos, Texas.

My great, great, great grandparents were among the founders of San Marcos and their house is a museum there. They also were people of faith. They were members of one of the oldest churches in town and some of [...]

The person in the mirror

In Psalm 51, we find a man crying out to God. We find a man desperate for forgiveness and restoration to God. The Psalm is titled, “A psalm of David. When the prophet Nathan came to him after David had committed adultery with Bathsheba.”

So often, we talk about David in glowing terms, don’t we? We [...]

Bleat, poop, faint

I heard a compelling sermon Sunday. It was on the subject of Jesus telling Peter to “feed my sheep.”

You remember the scripture – the one in which the risen Christ asks the apostle Peter if Peter loves him. The last time Peter had seen his Lord, he denied him. Now, Jesus asks Peter three times [...]