How do we mourn our loved ones who have died? At an unexpected moment, we feel the gasp in our throat, we lower our face; tears erupt, then sobs. We hear—even...

Meditating on these scriptures in November 2020, I try to imagine the world as it might be in the week of Trinity Sunday, June 2022. Eighteen months ago, I could not...

To those gathered in a room on the Day of Pentecost, Peter announces the inauguration of a new age, a transition marked by a mighty wind, by tongues of fire, and...

Several years ago, I first learned about the Enneagram, a personality-typing tool that a friend described as helping her understand herself better. After reading about the Enneagram’s nine personality types, I...

We often talk about our mission and values where I work. It is a hospital that was started by Franciscan sisters with a local doctor and his two sons. Because the...

Philip has walked with Jesus, heard the teachings, and witnessed lives transformed. He has been as close to God incarnate as anyone could hope to be, but he still needs a...

After four years of living within shouting distance of the ocean, I moved back to the prairie in the upper Midwest. The great expanses of sea and grasslands bring distinct images...

Each of us faces fear, and rarely do we know long periods of time without suffering. These experiences are parts of the human condition that come as surely as the changing...

Following John Lewis’s death in 2020, commentators cited often his urging to get into “good trouble.” Good trouble put him in harm’s way often as he worked to end segregation and...

Our church has been involved in a movement of anti-racist churches in Lansing, Michigan. As the COVID-19 pandemic was beginning, and following the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George...