“It was terrible, and it was wonderful.” This is Mack’s description of his encounter with Holy Wisdom deep within a mountain in the movie The

By Brian Keepers “The Church of Jesus Christ is the place—that is, the space—in the world where the reign of Jesus Christ over the whole

Now the betrayer had given them a sign, saying, “The one I will kiss is the man; arrest him.” At once he came up to

Debra Rienstra is away today. Debra has asked Katerina Parsons to allow us to post this essay, which appeared on March 1 on our sister

It was a very old church, although not as ancient as many throughout the Netherlands. And it was right on the street, middle of town,

Omaha Beach, January 2017 This landscape reminds me of home. The winter sun, the relatively warm weather, the golden grasses catching the light, the high

Last week I wondered why my clergy friends were talking about the Women at the Well (John 4) a week before I was preaching it.

Someone once observed that there is no sentence in the English language that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins,

Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away; for now the winter is past, the rain is over and gone. The flowers appear on