DIANE O'CONNOR

Since we started five weeks ago, seventy people have been coming to our Biblical Citizenship in Modern America Class, held at the Ridges,...

You influence others. You influence at home, and in your circle of contacts—at work or school, formally or informally. At the most basic...

These days I can feel myself getting a little defensive when people start pointing fingers at pastors, asking, “Why aren’t they teaching...

It is PRAYER that shifts atmospheres and changes culture! And it happens from the inside-out, one heart at a time. Everything around us...

After I became a Christ-follower, I desperately wanted to clarify my calling and serve the Lord with everything I had. I began thinking...

INSIDE OUT ART PRINT by Kerri Rosenthal "Inside-out" is a theme in my life. Over the years, God has woven inside-out thinking into the...

Handling Conflict - A Key to Healthy Relationships I asked myself,"Who should I be leading?," and then I boxed in five leadership domains...

2020 really got me thinking. Like so many others, I was reeling a bit after our brutal 2020. The world seemed to go completely mad...

TUMBLING AROUND MY HEAD THESE PAST WEEKS AND MONTHS WERE THE WORDS, "INFORMATION WAR." Truly—have you ever seen so much information...

BLUE VASE POPPIES, MIXED MEDIA ACRYLIC, 16 x 20 Life Lesson 1: If you do not like the direction life is going, try changing your...

We may often feel like the journey of our lives is full of "highs and lows," or "best and worst experiences." I've often heard the...

Above: Monochromatic Birches - Mixed Media on a 20 x 24 stretched canvas. Below: Golden Grove, 18 x 24 - Another piece created using the...

This fall the colors faded fast, the temperature dipped, and everything became very dark and gray much earlier than usual —it even...

"Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let...

In Part 1: The Dilemma, I concluded that we live in a world of urgent physical, emotional, and spiritual need—and we desperately want to...

There's a lot of talk right now about "need" and "systems being broken." I see many good-willed people scrambling to understand and...

One day on the Sabbath Jesus stood up in the temple to read. The scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it he found...

With the downward spiral of everything in the world right now I'm feeling a sense of urgency. Not a panic, but a compelling nudge

I came across this print in my art room this week. I hadn't seen it for years, but it triggered all kinds of emotions and memories. When...

AN UNSUCCESSFUL BRIDGE-BUILDER [My story—The Short Version] God placed me in a great family in a suburb of Milwaukee, and my childhood...