Following a noteworthy career in magazine, curriculum, book and Bible publishing, Dean Merrill is now concentrating on indepen­dent editorial work. Some of his projects are solo writing, many are collaborations with well-known personalities, and still others involve overall directing of complex editorial projects.
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• A Husband’s Prayer - Zipping out of our bedroom the other day, I glanced again at a framed poem on the wall. I wrote it years ago on an American Airlines flight from Dallas back to New York, and two Christian magazines picked it up. It spoke about the special place my wife held then, and still holds, in… read more »
• Finishing Well - What would it take to make you turn back from your walk with God? Getting old? Getting sick? Getting ridiculed by your secular peers? Watching your favorite preacher fall into sin? … read more »
• Screening Out the Word - Sometimes technology gives us more than we bargained for…. read more »
• Lots of Sayin’ Going On - Suddenly it seems my phone is ringing twice as often these early-summer days, while my mailbox is jammed, and the roadsides have sprouted more red-white-and-blue signs than yellow dandelions. Guess what: Another political season has burst open. Here we go again…. read more »
• My Right to Gripe - The contemporary style, you know, is simply I’ve paid my money, bought my ticket, and now I get to sound off about everything that’s wrong…. read more »
• So Sorry - About five weeks ago I wrote a post here about finding the will to forgive those who offend us, belittle us, or make us look bad in the eyes of our friends. I told the story of the former Nazi prison guard who approached one of his victims, Corrie ten Boom, after World War II… read more »
• The Joy of Zingers - Words are like hydrogen; if you know what you’re doing, you can make quite a bang. But you can also blow up innocent bystanders…. read more »
• Can Giving Be Fun? - I remember the day my wife and I stopped tithing. No, we hadn’t departed from the faith, nor were we even rebelling against our upbringing…. read more »
• Race without a Finish - An odd but teachable moment in a nine-year-old boy’s life…. read more »
• The Narrow Way and the Corporate Ladder - Work, in the final analysis, is not something Christians do for a boss, for stockholders or even themselves…. read more »
• Do Real Christians Get Mad? - So what’s a Christian to do with traffic jams, surly sales clerks, tax hikes, and personal insults? Is nothing in our slam-bang world worth blowing up about? … read more »
• Stampeding to Tomorrow - “Busy” has become the modern shibboleth—a word adults just have to say. It’s the only acceptable reply when asked what you’ve been up to…. read more »