State of Our Union Tonight the President will deliver the delayed State of the Union speech to Congress.  Its every word will be analyzed.   Pundits

A friend of mine says that Mary Oliver saved his life. Her vivid opening line in the poem, “The Journey” pierced him with an urgent

Morning, west window The sky feels oddly bright, considering the snow thickly falling in clustered flakes. The wind gusts, whirling flakes into powder, snowglobing my

“Sunday, October 15, we went to church. The wind was then blowing wildly, but this became worse further along in the day. When we got

One of the best names for God is “El Roi,” which was the name given to God by a vulnerable refugee named Hagar. El Roi,

I like to tell people that I’ve attended four different churches for my four years of college. • Freshman year was spend at Christ Church,

I met Paul Boardman over 30 years ago, when we were both seminarians. The son of Navigator missionaries to Japan, and an alum of Calvin

I heard Matt Bloom of the University of Notre Dame speak recently about research he is doing on well-being and thriving in ministry. Bloom has