Bells ring from Jerusalem’s church spires in the evenings. If you stand on tiptoe on the shower ledge of a hotel bathroom and look through the half-open skylig...
In Isaiah 43, Yahweh instructs the people of Israel to serve as “witnesses” to the world that He alone is God. A few millennia later, the Jesus followers of to...
Sometimes, all you can do is wail.
Every Lent, my mind returns to the image of tears. I think of the prophet Jeremiah, weeping under imperial subjugation an...
And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you, when each of...
Happy Easter! Our Lord is risen!
So this week, I’m just going to love on my family a bit.
I love my family. I really do. So much so, in fact, that I just sp...
I wish I had a quick, easy way to deal with fear. I wish that whenever I felt that inability to take a deep breath, that murky roiling of the stomach, that tigh...
Yesterday, some good friends of mine lost their grandfather. Although we often fear death as mighty and dreadful, it cannot truly kill us. As John Donne reminds...
Alleluia! Christ is risen! It’s Easter!
Wait, you think. It’s Thursday. Isn’t it a bit late for all of this Alleluia stuff? Easter was last Sunday. Let’s remem...
Everyone wants to be happy. How to be happy – well, that can become a divisive topic. The happiest moments of my life have come from romantic dates with my fian...
A highly contentious health care reform bill was just passed by the US House of Representatives that many people, Christians and non-Christians alike, opposed. ...
