[Note:  For my post this week, I offer a slightly revised Thanksgiving Day meditation I gave some years back.   It is based on Matthew 6:19-36

If it snows in November, is it because folks are decorating for Christmas? So I have been told. But I would have to live in

Every year during the third weekend in November, I attend a conference that attracts thousands of biblical and religious scholars from around the globe. This

It’s not an infrequent occurrence that my friends will reference a song from the 1990s or early 2000s and I have no idea what they’re

  A Mormon monument stands out there in the middle of nowhere. You have to hunt to find it, search hard simply to get up

I am the gate. Whoever enters by me will be saved, and will come in and go out and find pasture. The thief comes only

Last night, my dear friend Jane Zwart was the host of Calvin’s Named Scholarship Dinner–a time when college donors gather with the students whose scholarships

I remember exactly where I was when I first heard the phrase. In a backyard Bible school. Yes, that was a thing for a while,

It’s been my practice over the years to take a moment in worship, on Veterans Day Weekend, to acknowledge our veterans and their families. This