When I go to churches for my job (which is to educate congregations about immigration reform so they’re equipped to be advocates to change the

“A good sermon should skate right up to the edge of heresy. Make your point to the extreme. You’ll have other sermons to pull in

Your word I have hidden in my heart, That I might not sin against You. Psalm 119:11 “Jeff, I’ve got an idea,” I pulled him

A colleague opened a meeting with a prayer, “God, we know that you reveal far more than we are able to receive or even notice.

When I started my first “official” pastoral role in the late 1990’s, I immediately hung a painting of Rembrandt’s Return of the Prodigal Son on

Yesterday, during a NW Iowa blizzard, a friend and I went out for a beer. Sitting in the warm glow of sports television we talked

Meeting at First Church I’ve entered an incarnated coma. Images have been frozen in place for 40 years: the biblical equivalent of a “long, long

In the third month after the Israelites left Egypt, they arrived at the Desert of Sinai and camped in front of the mountain. Before God