When my oldest daughter Elena was a wee tot, there were parts of her bedtime routine that took a bit of wheedling and cajoling –

Just one word, one schismatic word, as venerable Scott Hoezee pointed out in these pages. This time it’s not circumcision, as in Galatia, but “chastity”

I was mindlessly scrolling through Facebook the other day when a meme stopped me. The photo was of an old, overweight guy pushing a cart

We continue looking at the themes for the Year A “Season of Creation” Sundays. Week Two is intended to follow the Theme of “Land.” In

I applaud Debra Rienstra’s initial piece, “We Have to Talk About Economics,” to introduce more discussion of economics in the Christian church community. I also

Jonathan Edwards has had a few tough innings of late. On the left, some dismiss him out of hand for having owned enslaved Africans (at

It is not a miracle—I know that. But it is extraordinary, something worth exclaiming about. For twenty-one consecutive mornings, I have risen and walked out

Group Session “Can you even teach people to apologize?” My wife Monica wondered this aloud as we sat together over espresso and croissants at our

Late in this summer’s blockbuster Christopher Nolan film Oppenheimer viewers are presented with a disorienting set of images.  It is the evening of August 6,