By today’s standards, there was good reason to believe it wasn’t starry-eyed love that brought them together or kept them blessedly close. There is no

For me, this is end-of-day music, music for lawn mowing before sundown, or washing the last of the dishes, or logging back online after the

There is plenty of positive and triumphalist thinking in the Christian tradition. But there is also this: a willingness to look directly at suffering, to

But some of the waste that I have to contend with can’t get heaved into a truck and become someone else’s problem. There are more

What concerns me even more is the presence of armed military members patrolling streets inside the United States. I have lived in countries that were

Capon’s next interpretive move catches me off guard: “As far as I am concerned, therefore, the unjust steward is nothing less than the Christ-figure in

Did Jesus enjoy performing miracles?  Although I am 61 years old and have been through seminary and have been ordained for 35 years next month,

Ferber purportedly took inspiration for her heroine from the real-life Antje Paarlberg of South Holland (“Low Prairie”), Illinois, but So Big’s pictureof Dutch-American culture and

Our problems begin when we see those outside our own groups as the “other.” Too often, we leave empathy at the door and see the