Heraldo’s parents and two-year-old brother had arrived in Nogales, Sonora, a few days earlier, two months after fleeing their village in Venezuela.

Time stood still as the procession, most dressed in their Sunday best, split in all directions at the leading of counselors eager to pray with

If really want to embrace the upside economy of the Kingdom of God, how might I surrender the kind of self-importance that believes I can

How often has any of us heard someone, bemused, say aloud, “I didn’t know I had it in me.”

I think she knew that it was safe enough to die.

It is illegal, now, but historically, blood sports were very popular. By definition, blood sports include activities that inflict serious injuries, pain, or death as

A newly-arrived family from Burundi came to church: two parents and nine children, fresh from a refugee camp in Tanzania.

What I appreciate most about some “proof-texting” is that it helps me to see what biblical texts moved someone to think this way or that.

Chesterton loved Christmas, returning in his essays, poems, and books to the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, again and again.