Today, as we honor the legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his dream of a nation freed from racism and injustice,

“Comfort, O comfort my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem and cry out to her….” Advent is the time when we hear again

A couple weeks ago I preached the story of Jesus feeding the 5000 for the very first time in twenty-one years of ministry. Oddly, I’d

She struggles to hold him still in her arms, bouncing him up and down, but he’s wiggly. He leans over and reaches for the water

Recently I had a conversation with a fellow pastor and close friend who’s in the final weeks of her sabbatical. I asked her, “In what

Dear Reader,One of the great treasures in my personal and corporate prayer life has been Douglas McKelvey’s two volume collection of liturgies titled Every Moment

The culture wars are back, and in full force. Truth is, they never left. What’s different in this moment, as moral psychologist Jonathan Haidt so

He cradles her feet, tired with years, in his sturdy hands. Slowly, he pours water over them. Then washes them, gently with a cloth. Mostly

My 16-month-old granddaughter, Luna, is going through a phase in which she’s fixated with belly buttons. She toddles up, lifts her shirt slightly, points to