After Rome conquered Palestine, they installed a puppet king—Herod the Great. In order to put down resistance to his rule, he employed widespread slaughter and

Dear Jesus,
In the beginning, you made us a little lower than the angels. But in the middle, you lowered yourself.

There are many kinds of darkness, aren’t there? And still yet, many more ways of experiencing and perceiving the different kinds of darkness.

A young woman in a patriarchal culture in a homeland occupied by a hostile empire and its toadies.

This past week in Advent, we made it to the fancily named Gaudete Sunday—or, translating the Latin, “Rejoice” Sunday. Lighting the pink candle, singing “Joy

I think this might be the first Christmas where I’m truly doing only the things I want to do. That sounds dangerously selfish. But it

Pluribus is the most morally interesting show since Breaking Bad and its sequel Better Call Saul. What these shows have in common is Vince Gilligan,

We’re more comfortable with metaphor than miracle.

Assume the best in ourselves and in others and get curious. Aim to connect rather than convince!

The Reformed Standards insist on boundaries, divisions, and internal uniformity while we yearn for bridges, unity, and internal diversity.

I crawled under the plastic branches to discover I had rotated the tree so enthusiastically that I’d pulled the light cord taut enough to rip