I find myself unsatisfied with simple spiritual answers, even if they are true. I’m more interested in learning from people who have spent long

Purity can serve wonder, or it can serve fear. In my laboratory, purity is not the goal; discovery is. When purity becomes the goal, it

To get “up” for game after game is exhausting, and the way most professional athletes manage to do it and to be human beings immediately

On her deathbed, Gertrude Stein asked, “What is the answer?” After a moment she asked, “What is the question?”   Socrates, who was known for his

We hadn’t been in the shelter for very long when a youth baseball team–decked out in their uniforms and eye black–found places around the tables

Collective effervescence, couldn’t we use it to describe the electric feeling of all sorts of communal experiences?

The two denominations have “turned corners” in different directions. We can only hope that their divergence will not return them to their old estrangement.

The behind-the-scenes question that we’re chasing after is “what can it look like to live faithfully as Jesus’ disciples here and now?

The immigration officer told him he should probably change his name from Christ Flak to something else, lest he take a lot of flak in

He had written in my mid-year evaluation that my preaching was, and I am quoting directly, “pitiful.”

You’d think my most joyful moments would be some epiphany in a worship, at a retreat, or on a mission project. But, no, it happened

My husband greeted me with an unexpected statement: “I’m pretty sure I heard meowing in our attic at about midnight last night.”