John Matthew Walker

Jesus loved the self-righteous religious leaders with unrelenting confrontation.

She feels unloved, unloveable, undesirable. Each step draws her deeper into the mire of self doubt, self consciousness, and self loathing. Her emotions fade, flatten, and fail. Her spirit falls into the abyss. But she is not alone. Deep beneath the roaring flames, buried in the coals she has heaped on herself and those life has hurled upon her, she feels a cooling presence and senses a light she cannot see, and a hand she cannot feel. In the silence she feels a whisper. She o

I recently finished revising my novel about a small-town girl who is abducted and trafficked for sex. Although her story is fiction, it's all too real, and it's happening every day in every town. The numbers are staggering, and they aren't numbers. They're girls... and boys. I've been trying to process what I've learned about sex-trafficking, but I can't get my mind around it. I just finished reading 27 Seconds by Anny Donewald. She tells the story of a friend who was trying