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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,...

Sometimes we need a broad-horizoned place to hunger and thirst and discover that our soul...

 In hurrying along our way, we often miss what matters most.

Maybe mercy is the key to living well and truly. We’re going to die. But...

What if we came to understand that while our salvation is not in doubt, the...

Eugene Peterson wrote: "A contemplative life is not an alternative to the active life, but...

Before something mighty we have to let ourselves feel a little awe.  Even a flooded...

Jesus' manna helps me challenge the self-constructed narrative that views the future as a to-do...

We can tie ourselves in knots trying to figure out the will of God.  But...

The problem runs deep for those of us who profess to follow Christ. Does the...

I keep discovering anew the originality of Jesus’ life, the daring freshness of the gospels.

In impossible situations, we’re called to be immovable in our confidence that God is at...

While congregations can develop strategies for outreach, what we need to do is have more...