Despite its name, the Rule of St. Benedict is not actually a collection of rules. It is the constitutional document for Benedictine monasteries. It

The Reformed belief in the complementarity of the books of revelation offers a third way. It invites believers to open their hearts and search for

I look up and see heavens so vast and mysterious that I feel lost, wandering in a cosmic wilderness. The infinite immensity of space threatens

I preached on LGBTQ issues four times in forty years, once in each church I served. I tried to model how to talk about these

Christian nationalist and culture-war ideologies offer what may sound like an appealing pathway forward. The call to “take back our country” and win the culture

My body is me. Any attempt to ignore and suppress this body-soul oneness is to cause harm, for it is to live in opposition to

The Sabbath invites us to get clear about what our values are in relation to time, so that when we feel the tug between fast

One night, as my grandfather lay there, body-quaking, he suddenly felt a warm sensation throughout his body. He felt drawn to the light, the same

What I remember most about Emese, though, was her insistence that our book club read the “greatest book” she’d ever read, The Little Prince. After