Power Without a Face There are times when a man walks into a room and feels a pressure he cannot see. It is not the pressure of one man alone. It is bigger than that. It sits in the language, in the rules, in the manner of the place. It asks for obedience and calls itself order. It asks for surre

The Investment of Wishing Well I have always been a man who wishes people well, because the world is already heavy enough without us adding stones to one another’s pockets. Kindness, I have learned, is not small. It is not soft in the way the weak are soft. It is soft in the way rain is soft pati

There is a truth humanity has tried to outrun since the beginning of time: God sees everything. Nothing remains hidden forever. The world teaches people to protect appearances. A man may hide his actions behind success. A woman may bury heartbreak behind a smile. Families conceal resentment ben

There is a truth humanity has tried to outrun since the beginning of time: God sees everything. Nothing remains hidden forever. The world teaches people to protect appearances. A man may hide his actions behind success. A woman may bury heartbreak behind a smile. Families conceal resentment ben

Roy, what is faith? And what religion do you believe in? Good questions. I’ll answer the religion one first: I’m not religious, and neither is God. I’m a man of God. Because I’m a man of God and not a “religious man,” all the walls and titles come down. I get to speak and be myself, and you get