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When we receive time as a gift, we experience gratefulness for the moments we’ve been...

Jesus was the center of Augustine's faith, and community was the center of his life.

God has not created our lives to be a bundle of commitments and causes.  We...

In this season of destruction, we need to do something creative. We need to garden.

It’s a paradox of death-made-life that Jesus’ transformative and healing love is unleashed on the...

Giving thanks in and for this day means something more than just showing gratitude for...

Prayer is paying attention and practicing gratitude.  It’s less about the words we say than...

We long for the God who has gifted us this whole, preter-lavish world, the One...

We have these moments in which we, like Mary, can say “yes!” to God.

Christianity is an old, idol-busting religion.  And we need regular doses of this Ancient of...

Indifference is a sin precision-milled for our age.

The Christian view of the world is inherently hopeful.  God is real and Jesus is...

There are times in our lives when doing the right thing will mean stepping out...

Maybe it's possible to discover a love of neighbor broad enough to encompasses a nation.

Perhaps knowing the pain of being misunderstood can prompt us to give the gift of...

Rural communities don’t need to be reformed or rescued.  Rural already has plenty to offer,...

Could it be that the influence-seeking superstarization of church leaders has blunted what should be...

What feels like praying to you?  Is it quilting or serving in the soup kitchen...

We cannot know him, follow him, or love him unless we embrace Jesus’ cruciform heart.

The ancient church was called “the Way” because it’s meant to be walked--and it’s impossible...

Being called to ministry will involve a sensible, loving unfolding of our whole lives in...

It's so easily forget that to be alive is to be the beneficiary of a...

The words and ash of Ash Wednesday are a prick to our consciences to turn...

Ash Wednesday makes the beginning of a season of repentance during which we seek to...

All too often, we confuse our paying work with our unchanging vocation--and that leads to...

 Coffee grants me the escape velocity to transcend the dull ordinariness of time and self....

When we sleep, we are releasing life and history to the God who never sleeps,...

Why aren’t folks flooding the big sky Great Plains, old school industrial Midwest, and beer...

Your calling is one way that God makes you a gift to the world.

Advent is about praying for Jesus the Immanuel to come into our lives--strength, mind, soul,...