There may come a time when someone’s great-grandma discovers a dusty old day book some long-ago ancestor left behind, a broken mess of scribbled-in remnants

At the end of a whirlwind lecture about the “Writings” in the Hebrew Bible, my intro Old Testament professor arrived at the whirlwind itself: Job

One of the reasons I keep participating on this blog is that I think it makes me more attentive. And that’s vital to me, especially

*** If you listen to a preacher long enough, you can deduce what they wrestle with personally, and you come to realize that all preachers

The first time you seesomething die, you won’t know it mightcome back… -Maggie Smith, First Fall It’s been a cloudy, cloudy month in these parts. 

“I’ve been thinking about the way,” is how Danusha Laméris begins her poem “Small Kindnesses.”  I too have been thinking about the way, the way

I want to share a surprising and uplifting moment that occurred a few weeks ago in the supermarket. But first let me tell you about

In graduate school, I got a chance to see correspondence between two 19th century lions of American Presbyterian theology: Charles Hodge and James Henley Thornwell.

Last week at a funeral, the pastor spoke about how we might see God, how we can pay attention to God, in a world full