Carie Grant

Did you ever play the video game Oregon Trail? It was one of the first role-playing video games ever.  A generation of kids lost untold hours online accumulating shovels, buying pack mules, hunting wild game,...

Speaking to someone at nighttime is so different than in the brash light of day.  It was at night that Nicodemus went to visit Jesus.  Quiet.  Candlelit.  He went seeking concrete answers to the undeniable...

The temple of Jerusalem at Passover must have been a complete sensory overload:  this manic festival atmosphere with people struggling to acquire what was necessary for worship.  Thousands of worshippers, thousands of sellers, shouting over...

I find myself feeling so deeply for the master of the banquet.  Here is this person hired specifically to handle the logistics of this wedding.   His entire job is to ensure everything runs smoothly...

Our focus in the forgiveness of others is obviously the other person:  the cultivation of mercy and grace for the one who has hurt us.  But sometimes our forgiveness can feel incomplete.  That resentment can...

Anger can be our worst subject.  We show too much.  We show too little.  We point it in the wrong direction. In my family, it was important to shield the children from anything resembling anger. ...

Meme culture.  We increasingly live in a society that communicates via symbols: digital emojis express human emotion when we can’t see each other’s faces. A single cartoon image conveys layers of political commentary that used...

It’s really challenging to travel anywhere by committee.  “Too many cooks in the kitchen” is the expression.  I was thinking that as my mother and I drove south, two old ladies with a lead foot...

Oh, I’m a people pleaser from way back.  I was a quiet kid with two high-performing older brothers, so a good way to get the focus back on me was to become indispensable to my...

I am the kind of person who takes shortcuts.  There is not a “hack” I haven’t tried, a corner I haven’t cut. I believe I can pray, while scrubbing dishes, while also performing deep lunges...

We’ve been working on creating light for a long time.  As the sun set, our ancestors were busy rubbing sticks together to create sparks and build a fire.  Later they graduated to striking flint, lighting...

Nehemiah was a Jewish exile – but for an exile, he had a great job.  He was not out digging ditches or threshing grain in the hot sun.  Instead, he worked within the cool halls...