The Lenten season is marked by stories of sacrifice. We abandon the external manifestations of certain vices for a mere forty days. A few weeks without chocola...
I got an email the other day with a subject line declaring, “It’s all about you!” In a time when I struggle with feelings of inadequacy as I realize more and m...
how to believe that He knows best:
– field grass, clothed
– birds, full-bellied
– lilies, well-rested
– upturned heads, softly alight, singing
it is my will th...
My second grade Sunday school teacher was a big fan of special metaphors. In one particularly memorable class, he wrote God on the board and then explained th...
Proverbs 6:17
Here are six things God hates,
and one more that he loathes with a passion:
eyes that are arrogant,
a tongue that lies,
hands that murd...
Ezekiel 1:1 "In my thirtieth year, in the fourth month on the fifth day, while I was among the exiles by the Kebar River, the heavens were opened and I saw vi...
William Temple: "Religion is what you do with your solitude."
Most of us cannot stand the nakedness of silence. When a person is entirely alone, they ...
“Blessed are those who have mercy
Who give to the poor and fast and pray
The Holy Spirit will fill their hearts
The Son will show them mercy on judgement day”
...
"In thought, in word, in deed, through negligence, through weakness, through our own deliberate fault." When the time for confession comes in our Church s...
This is part of a syndicated series for Lent 2019 with Yale's Christian Journal Logos. Visit Logos at https://yalelogos.com
I have had a few—a very few—mome...
