Hot takes grab attention not simply with decisiveness but divisiveness. We celebrate winners and give a dismissive backhand to those labeled as “losers.”

An injury left me immobile on the couch for a few months. Thankfully, I’m slowly walking now, but in some ways I’m still carrying the

I ate my bowl of lentils, growing more and more concerned, until I glimpsed out of the corner of my eye one of the monks

Serendipitously and unintentionally, Walter Brueggemann’s newest book, God of All Promises arrived on my birthday. It came in the usual way: a brown mailer from

Through making this map, I wanted to surface the things I currently find to be most true in my relationship to God.

Resurrection looks like an art project hung on a chain-link fence surrounding an empty lot. The transformation has not yet happened. There is still uncertainty

I am not proud of this unreasonable anxiety over something that should be pleasurable and satisfying. Contrary to how it may appear, I am a

My dad said something to an usher, and from that press of people we were singled out and led down a hallway to a closed

I approached writing the prayer the same way I approach writing for the Reformed Journal. I’m not employed by an institution and don’t worry about

I’m still not quite sure what Hildegard believed nutmeg did, scientifically. But I can certainly recommend making nutmeg cookies during a church staff meeting and

Eugene wouldn’t come since driving his car from the Baltimore to New Jersey would take too much of his time. We countered that he could