
Homecoming – Chapter One of “Rooted”
The kids were silent. Eerily silent. Quite possibly more silent than four kids aged five through ten confined to car seats have ever been in

The kids were silent. Eerily silent. Quite possibly more silent than four kids aged five through ten confined to car seats have ever been in

The 21st century has transformed busyness into a deeply subjective experience. You can feel busy even when you aren’t physically overburdened. This new busyness is

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