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

Easter    Two of the fingers on his right hand had been broken  so when he poured back into that hand it surprised him—it hurt him at first.  And the whole

As a theology professor, I regularly confront—and help students to confront—God’s hiddenness in history. For all the signs that point to God’s activity in time—Jesus’