It’s here we reach the pinnacle of Christian doctrine and a hornet’s nest of intra-Christian disputes

It is not surprising that Jesus should speak of laughter and rejoicing as the proper response to his announcement of reversals at hand with the

I suspect I’m not the only person who, in the face of our nation’s recent authoritarian turn, is struggling to define a posture between outrage

Soon enough your life is colored by battles you never signed up for and obligations that you wouldn’t have chosen for yourself.

I remember sitting with my parents in the doctor’s office the day we heard the final diagnosis. “It’s not good,” was all the doctor could

A few years back, on the first Sunday of Lent, I presided over the baptism of a 7-year-old child. The congregation was between pastors, and

“…we do not know how to pray as we ought…” -Romans 8:26 Paul’s admission here comforts me, given the variety of ways my prayers tend

During seminary, a professor who would later become a mentor and friend, the missional theologian Darrell Guder, taught our class something that that has stayed