The psalmist exclaims: “You . . . clothed me with gladness” so that “my glory may sing your praise” (esv). God clothes sinners with gladness to sing praise to God because of God’s own glorious...

Verse 16 of our reading reiterates the idea of embodied evangelism, the suffering to which God is calling Paul for the sake of the gospel. God calls Paul to a cruciform...

Evangelism occurs through our embodiment of the gospel. God calls Ananias to heal Saul of Tarsus, but Ananias understandably is anxious about taking up this mission. After all, Ananias knows that...

Psalm 150 serves as our doxology this week as it affirms myriad ways to praise our Creator. Everything that breathes offers praise to God. There are extravagant acts of praise: dance,...

Today’s reading offers God’s gift of love to all of us. As Christians, we live the story of God’s love and of this blessing week after week with thankful hearts through...

We can find a love story written in the story of our faith in Revelation. The beauty and wonder of the Christian story is that it is set in a complex...

Emmett Till was 14 years old when he was tortured and murdered in Mississippi on August 28, 1955. He was accused of flirting with a white cashier, Carolyn Bryant. His mother,...

In the first days after loss of a beloved, absence is palpable. Sorrow runs deep. We feel as if there is a hole in the solar plexus. Raw feelings—yearning, unbelief that...

From Western and Eastern Christian traditions, resurrection/anastasis carries an individual and a communal quality. In the days after the tragic school shootings in Parkland, Florida, and in dozens of others before,...

Anastasis, which means “up” or “rising,” is the ancient Greek word used by Orthodox Christianity for what the churches of Western Christianity call “resurrection.” While the English translation of the word...