2023-01-25T12:08:26-05:00

Our categories of fun, happy, interesting, entertaining, and worthy are always a little bit warped by the glittering screens that surround us. Read more

2022-11-15T20:34:09-05:00

Ask a bunch of Protestants what Holy Communion means, and they’re likely to respond with something about “remembering what Jesus has done for us.”   It’s not a bad answer.  After all, in Luke’s and Paul’s account of the Last Supper, Jesus instructs the disciples to “do this in remembrance of me” (Luke 22:19; 1 Corinthians 11:24).  But remembrance strikes only one note in the meaning of communion.  There’s more—not least the way that communion expresses and cultivates thanksgiving.  Communion is... Read more

2022-11-18T10:59:33-05:00

Befriend uncertainty as the grace of the living God. Read more

2022-11-13T09:11:00-05:00

Pastoral burnout isn’t primarily about overwork, and it can’t be addressed by taking a break or achieving better “balance” in our lives. Read more

2022-05-10T12:21:40-05:00

I find myself doing less catapulting requests at heaven and more wondering and waiting. Read more

2022-04-29T13:15:52-05:00

Although fasting is a spiritual discipline, it’s first a grace. Read more

2022-01-12T09:19:29-05:00

I’m excited to announce my new book: The Hunger Inside: How the Meal Jesus Gave Transforms Lives, coming out with Paraclete Press on April 5! The Hunger Inside was a labor of love, a map of my own breadcrumb trail to the Lord’s table, a dive through Scripture and story into the depth and mystery of the meal Jesus gave. Here’s a short excerpt adapted from chapter 1: The late, great Orthodox priest, Alexander Schmemann wrote that “Behind all the hunger of... Read more

2022-01-06T20:42:56-05:00

Jesus calls us to give up our lives, not improve upon them. Read more

2021-12-30T11:12:55-05:00

As we live and move and have our being in him, our lives—and thus our plans—are drawn to Christ. Read more

2021-12-18T16:06:05-05:00

Jesus of Nazareth is Adam of Eden, redux and restored, God collapsing the jagged space wrenched open by sin. Read more


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