Angela Denton Foss

Since the new year started, I’ve heard two different people make an interesting distinction.  In the first instance, a woman was discussing how it is possible for us to see Jesus as our Savior but not actually as our Lord.  Then, in the second instance a new friend referred to someone very dear to her […]

Back in 2011, my transplant year, I accepted a challenge I heard on the radio–I picked a word for the new year.  My word for that year was “believe,” which is what I needed to do at the time; I needed to believe that, though I had been told that cancer was attempting to overthrow […]

This time of the year, the Christmas season, takes me back to one of the most remarkable relationships I’ve ever had in my life–my friendship with my chemo comrade, Jane.  In my sick season memoir, I refer to her as J.R. and she is the only person who has her own chapter (“The Trench Light”).  […]

In recent weeks several people whom I’m very close to and whom I love deeply have been going through very real struggles of faith.  They have very legitimate and rather hard-to-answer questions about God.  And I feel like I’ve often failed as I’ve attempted to help them work through what they’re thinking and feeling.  And […]

There’s a story I’d like to share.  It’s about a woman who’s in the prime of her life.  She has a leadership role in the company she works for and seems to really like her job.  She has an adorable young son who seems to be the apple of her eye.  She’s beautiful and energetic […]

Over the past several days, I’ve heard more than one individual talk about being saved; and it occurred to me that, had I not grown up in church, I would be more than a little puzzled by their comments. In fact, since most people seem to end their sentence with the word “saved,” I might […]

It seems that everywhere I go these days people are talking about giving.  I hear about things like a random stranger leaving a $100 at Starbucks for the next round of people who come in afterward.  And in recent months a woman I’d never seen before bought my groceries at Target because the stranger in front of […]

All it took to change the entire direction of my heart, mind, and soul today was just one word–“suicide.” I forget sometimes just how powerful words are. I think we all forget. The main point of the context within which this word was used today was something far different than the word itself, yet the […]

This morning I had the privilege of speaking to a MOPS group (Moms of Preschoolers) at a church in Raleigh.  After I spoke and did a reading, I opened the floor to questions from the group.  While I’m not sure that I had any fixed expectations regarding questions that might be asked, I can say […]

Lately, I really have missed writing posts; and I sure do hope that there’s at least a friend or two out there who has missed reading.  I’ve been speaking much more, which is an awesome privilege and one that has required much of my time and attention.  Last year, I had developed a pattern of […]