In that moment, the words of my pastoral care professor–“90% of ministry is just showing up”–gave me courage.

I think churches—not just big box churches, but all churches—have something to learn from trampoline parks.

They just keep singing. In the midst of the shock and devastation, their voices find each other, and they find the songs that they know.

Disillusionment is defined as the state of being freed from an illusion or false belief. It can be a letting go, rather than a disappointment.

That mean streak, as Manfred himself knew, is never quite as proud as when it can hang on some doctrinal principle that legitimizes its existence.

We thought it would never happen here, but now it is. This is not the way life is supposed to be. Deep down we know

A spring evening, it began to rain. It was the soft rain that lulls one to sleep at night, the kind of rain that reminds

It is this very Christian habit of eschatological hope that grants us the temporal foolishness to work for more justice, more flourishing-peace even now, before

We are becoming merely homo phagon—humans who consume, from the Greek phago, to devour. We are all mouth.

“Daddy, are we Christian because you and mommy are Christian? If you were Muslim, would we be Muslim?”

Did young Christians in the 1980s marry early because they wanted to have sex within the bounds of marriage? Absolutely!

A heart became available, and a 10-hour transplant surgery began on Memorial Day evening. A month in the hospital following a heart transplant is standard,