by Jonni Turner | Aug 31, 2021 | Holy Words
If you are serious about life and learning, asking questions becomes a way of life. That goes for everything you see and hear and otherwise sense in the world. It doubly goes for second-hand information in all its forms: books, television, digital information and...
by Jonni Turner | Dec 31, 2020 | Arts & Letters
Since early December this year I’ve been plagued by an earworm, and perhaps you have, too. This is hardly surprising amidst a global pandemic during a year like 2020. According to one article, “Earworms are a generally benign form of rumination, the repetitive,...
by Jonni Turner | Jul 31, 2020 | Holy Words
Are you one of those blessed by the mystical? Perhaps you believe it’s beyond you or that it doesn’t exist at all. Mystical experience, or the sudden awareness of God’s presence, is a common phenomenon in the lives of human beings. Yet it’s almost completely missing...
by Jonni Turner | Jun 30, 2019 | Holy Words
Keeping your own ideas and thoughts to the forefront when reading the Bible is a little like being that person who hears without listening during a conversation. You are just waiting for someone to finish so you can have your say. (Yes, I have been guilty of this,...
by Jonni Turner | Feb 26, 2019 | Holy Words
If you are too busy or disinterested to read the Bible on a daily basis, you may wonder why so many people do. Perhaps it has to do with the way themes in the Bible continue to resonate today. Nowhere is this more true than in the Psalms, those poetic prayers set to...
