When Love Shows Up

So my church is going on a pilgrimage to the border of the U.S. and Mexico this Fall and I am going with them. I’ve been doing a lot

There is a profoundly odd story in the Bible about Abraham and Sarah. There is a famine where they are living and they are forced to flee to a

Paul’s relationship to citizenship was complicated. In his heart, he was first and foremost a Jew. But of course the history of our Jewish siblings includes a significant amount of displacement and diaspora, and Paul was born

When God spoke to Abram, Abram was promised a future, a heritage, God’s blessing, and even a purpose: Through Abram, all the world would be blessed.

“Well,” I said very knowingly to someone much older, smarter, and wiser than me, “I just don’t believe we should let our religious beliefs influence

There is nowhere you can go that God isn’t.   There is no place where God is absent.   In one of my favorite Psalms the writer marvels

From time to time I have seen a quote by liberal personality John Fugelsang surface on social media. It’s about Jesus, and it goes like this:   “Jesus was a radical nonviolent revolutionary

Last week I wrote about one of Jesus’ more challenging teachings: It is a parable where the owner of a vineyard recruits laborers to work in his

We’re going to do a little Bible study today – which is, I know, unusual for this space. I was going to paraphrase this story that

Once upon a time I was talking with an atheist English teacher who believed in predestination. These are the kinds of conversations you have when

I’m going to read you a couple of Bible verses that have nothing to do with what I want to talk about today. I’m not trying to trick

I’ve always been short. I was the shortest boy in my class all the way into high school. There were a couple other short boys, but they