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This blog is also available as a podcast The text message hit my phone at exactly 7am last Sunday. This is not the most unusual thing. Anny often texts

This blog is also available as a podcast There’s a story in the Bible about a woman grabbing onto the hem of Jesus’ garment as he’s walking through a crowd and it heals

This blog is also available as a podcast There’s a story about when the Dean of my seminary was interviewing for the job. He’d gotten

This blog is also available as a podcast “So are there other Republicans at the church?” he asked me. And I laughed. I laughed because

This blog is also available as a podcast Last week I insisted that, as a Christian who is American, I must understand myself as Christian

This blog is also available as a podcast The first morning after I returned from my first trip to Italy, I woke up, went out

This blog is also available as a podcast What does it look like to value our children? How do we care for them? What is our

This blog is also available as a podcast I used to wait tables for a living. Every so often I miss it. I liked taking care of people.

This blog is also available as a podcast I didn’t go to church much while I was on sabbatical. Obviously I didn’t go to my church at all. But I did go

This blog is also available as a podcast Did you know that our bones are constantly breaking themselves down and building themselves back up again?

This blog is also available as a podcast I have told the story before of how I had a conversion experience on a hillside in

Hi friends. As you may know, I am currently on sabbatical and we’ll be out until August 11th. Throughout my time off we have a