The feast is only the feast because of the host.
Read MoreI do not believe that God causes suffering. Instead, I believe that God is more powerful than suffering, capable of transforming it for the sake of God's desires.
Read MoreThe church is supposed to see those whom others have stopped recognizing.
Read MoreWe can be evangelists for gluten-free diets or yoga or our favorite technology. But an evangelist for Jesus?
Read MoreWhen we give boost to spiritual meaning, we risk doing so at the cost of material truth.
Read MoreThe goal is to be the crowd, living in the city, and moving between the two with clumsy grace.
Read MoreOur acts of compassion should be as natural as breath.
Read MoreAmerican Christianity seems confident that being a Christian has very little to do with Church.
Read MoreWe have to learn to be comfortable with being uncomfortable.
Read MoreHeaven is not a meritocracy.
Read MoreThe injury may heal; but depending on how deep the cut, there will always be a scar.
Read MoreWhen there’s no shrine, there’s no need to stay put.
Read MoreThere's nothing to lose, except our guilt, in bringing it all before God: our triumphs and failures, our certainties and doubts, our wonder and horror.
Read MoreIn other words, blessed are those who don’t feel particularly blessed.
Read MoreRenewal isn’t about returning to what was. That’s nostalgia, not faith.
Read MoreAs we notice God’s wisdom, we are more likely to notice how close at hand God already is.
Read MoreThose who welcomed the Christ child were probably pretty sure they had it all figured out; until God interrupted their lives with fantastic promises of a newborn king born in the backwater of Bethlehem.
Read MoreIf the Christ child, whose birth we await again, was truly Emmanuel, God with us, then surely the church must be enfleshed in justice and righteousness in this broken world.
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