I had this coaster made up and have kept it on my desk as a perpetual reminder: sin is crouching nearby. Even if you are not a “person of faith”, you know this is true. The urge to do something foolish, something unfair, something selfish — that urge isn’t far away. It’s as close as…

A local artist has painted a series of beautiful and perceptive portraits of people in the town of Golden. An old man visits the town with a mission: to buy each portrait and gift it to the person it depicts. But is that his only reason to spend a year in town? Meet the residents…