Not long ago, I was part of a group from our church that accompanied Javier to the local office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

I was raised with a freedom to ask questions about my faith. I didn’t have the sort of fundamentalist baggage that I now discover many

While I grieved for the broken relationship between church and pastor, I was also excited about this opportunity for myself. After the initial three weeks

I remember vividly the day my death-denying illusions were shattered—it happened when I was a senior in high school. A friend had driven home from

“O Taste and See” was written two decades before Levertov would explicitly identify as a Christian, yet she already intuited that focusing on this world

Still, when I compare Old and New Testament lamenting, I can’t shake the sense that the coming of Jesus changed the role of lament for

There was a time in my career when the father of one of my students (in a different decade and a different state) requested a

All of us spend much of our lives constructing the protection we think we need to survive and thrive. These layers of defense work well

But Jeff wasn’t asking for a dissertation-level, academic deep dive on any of these claims. He was just curious about the general consensus out there