Every Wednesday during the school year, my divinity school hosted a service in the small chapel on campus. It was a sparsely-attended affair all fall and winter until we got to...

Most of us like attention, even crave it; to be beheld can be a powerful experience, especially if we perceive the beholder as someone whose attention is discriminating and hard to...

Check out Pieter Bruegel’s Tower of Babel paintings. They are late-medieval imaginings of the story from Genesis 11, when humanity attempts to scale heaven. This becomes the origin story for the...

Perhaps you’ve had this experience: In a dilemma, the right choice presents itself because the other options have become impossible. Before Paul’s night vision of the Macedonian pleading for help, the...

In my years of ministry, I’ve often felt that I don’t really know what I’m doing in the big picture. Perhaps you’ve felt this way too. But then, unexpectedly, I’ll meet...

How do you know that someone loves you? Is it the words they say, the commitments they keep, the affection they show to you? Or maybe it’s in the ways they’ve...

The promise of a new heaven and a new earth means we will experience change from what currently surrounds us. But John’s apocalyptic words are not intended to comfort us about...

John shares his powerful vision and paints a picture for us of a new heaven and a new earth, where God will dwell among us close enough to wipe away our...

I love stepping into my backyard in my bare feet at night, walking through the grass and catching a glimpse of the moon through the branches of the large tree that...

In my work, I help trauma survivors experience healing. Sometimes after experiencing a trauma, a client feels ‘unclean’ and undeserving of positive life experiences, limiting themselves and keeping their world small....