I feel fortunate to come from a family of storytellers, men and women who keep our family’s history alive by recounting to younger generations the tales of days gone by. Each...

“May the memory of them be a blessing,” is a common honorific for the deceased among Jewish people. It’s based on Proverbs 10:7, “The memory of the righteous is a blessing.”...

Hosea preaches to Israel and Ephraim in the Northern Kingdom during the same time frame as Isaiah prophesies in Jerusalem in the Southern Kingdom. Hosea and Isaiah’s preaching leads us to...

The West African country of Senegal has a tradition called “storying” where storytellers relate important tales of national or personal history through words, actions, and singing. Senegalese Christian women meet together...

Prayer changes things. We respond as the disciples, “Lord, teach us to pray,” but we continue to doubt whether God hears or cares about our prayers. After giving the disciples a...

We generally don’t consider the Lord’s Prayer a particularly exciting passage. Many of us have prayed this prayer since childhood. We think we already know how to pray. But in this...

What does a “normal” Christian look like? Paul warns the Colossians that some people will condemn them. He warns that some will even try to “disqualify” their faith. Those same warnings...

Paul writes to the Colossians to redirect them from false teachings being introduced into the church. Paul gets to the point clearly, “Live your lives in [Christ] . . . just as you were taught.”...

The haunting line woven through the first half of this psalm sets the tone for the second half. Verse 5 asks, “Will you be angry with us forever?” Can you feel...

Restore us, O God! The more things change, the more the refrain stays the same. The psalmist yearns for a return to past glories. The psalmist remembers (perhaps accurately, perhaps not)...