Mahlon Zehr

Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father. (Matthew 3:8,9) Cowboys In a different era of my life, I received a phone call that went to voicemail. The voice on the recording was smooth and gentle,

One night God took Abram out under the night sky and showed him the stars. I have seen some spectacular night skies, but I can only imagine what the Middle Eastern sky was like some 4,000 years ago. To have the artist Himself pointing out His handiwork must have

Maybe greatness could have occurred….what happens when greatness does not occur? What happens, in fact, when fumble leads to error, leads to mishap, and before you know it, you have left the realm of ordinary mistake and chaos, and you have entered into the more ethereal, specialized realm of

About 750 miles southwest of my house lies Fish Lake National Forest in central Utah. It is a typically scenic western national forest with a blend of evergreen and deciduous trees, mountain lakes, and various resident wildlife. Beautiful and predictable. Less predictable is the presence of the world’s largest

Nature, and Nature’s laws lay hid in night. God said, “Let Newton be!” And all was light. —Alexander Pope While Alexander Pope’s adulation of Sir Isaac Newton is a bit much, Newton was a giant among men by most accounts. The sheer breadth of his contribution to human

At the end of 2008, progressive America was sloshing in optimism. Eight long years of a Republican Commander-in-Chief from Texas were ending, and a liberal young senator from Chicago, Black and charismatic, was just elected to the highest office in the land. For progressives, everything was going to be better

On a late afternoon, a melancholy rider followed the setting sun into a dusty town and when the dust finally settled one week later, the bad guys lost and a new era began. But since this isn’t a Zane Grey novel, the enigmatic newcomer wasn’t wearing a pair

When did you last chant an incantation, cast a spell, or fashion a talisman? Have you recently attempted to purchase spiritual influence or power? Or do you think birthright citizenship in America automatically confers immunity from superstition, like an unwritten twenty-eighth Constitutional amendment, along with freedom of speech and the

I carry a black semiautomatic rifle in my pickup these days, tucked between the center console and the driver’s side seat, the muzzle resting on the floor near the gas pedal. A powerful flashlight and a green laser sight are clamped on a picatinny rail under the barrel. A

by Mahlon Zehr As I write, Thanksgiving Day remains more memory than anticipation. We haven’t started planning for this year’s Thanksgiving yet, but gratitude is on my mind, because I was reading to the children last night about the Israelites and their perpetual grumbling. People died because they