With the murder of Charlie Kirk on Wednesday and the anniversary of September 11th on Thursday, this week […]
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I recall, a while back, being at a memorial service for a member of my congregation. I was […]
This past week, I was in Chicago as part of a preaching workshop. One of the wonderful things […]
In the early years of my marriage, my wife and I were quite nomadic. After our wedding, we […]
There are people in our lives who are extraordinarily good at gift-giving. My little brother is that way. […]
Since time began, people have been imagining, designing, or implementing some global utopia. How have those projects worked […]
So, yesterday was my 50th Birthday. Fifty years is a significant milestone. For half a century, I have […]
Pastors sometimes get attacked for preaching “impractical” sermons. We are accused of preaching about things that are too […]
Many know Jesus’ parable of the two sons and their generous, forgiving father. We especially love how it […]
Paul’s words from 1 Corinthians 10 come to us as a warning, a cautionary tale about the dangerous […]
The young preacher noticed that one of his elderly parishioners never came up for ashes on Ash Wednesday. […]
A Madrašâ for Ash Wednesday based on Joel 21.Blow the siren, let the streets go silent,Let the town […]
At the end of the book of Deuteronomy, we find God’s people gathered on the plains of Moab. […]
Work it with sweat long enough and you’ll discover that there’s a certain stubbornness in the land, in […]
Perhaps you have seen pictures of those ancient couples found in an eternal embrace in a grave. You […]
The frail light settles in the meeting place where our knowing ends, and the unmeasured begins. Mystery, they […]
Throughout the centuries, different metaphors have been used to describe the Church. Some come directly from Scripture, some […]
A concern I increasingly hear from Christians in this country centers on a perceived fear that they (we) […]
As if caught up in a fever dream, she pushed her way through the crowd of mourners and […]
I am not one to contribute to social media posts. In fact, I have a personal rule that […]