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November 2013

November 11, 2013
For now, today, to get a sense of this scene, imagine walking into synagogue on...
November 01, 2013
Less than one percent of your day given to contemplation. And that less-than-one-percent will reorient...

October 2013

October 19, 2013
I think too often Christians believe the holy spirit begins its best work when the...
October 12, 2013
The Bible doesn’t excise the ambiguity from life, not even when its stories are about...

September 2013

September 28, 2013
The Hebrew word ruach opens a world of mystery, a vista of possibilities that encompass...
September 11, 2013
Sometimes we feel the chaos deeper still. Clench at the stab of sickness. Stand, shaken,...
September 06, 2013
Are the people of Syria so destitute, so cornered by chemical weapons, so oppressed that...

August 2013

August 27, 2013
Kids should be relentless—not behaviorally modified to relent, to give ground, to concede and cave....
August 20, 2013
Ask yourself what loving God with “your whole heart” means, and you may come up...
August 09, 2013
There we were, together, a white twelve-year-old boy with an utter incapacity to sing the...
August 01, 2013
Good sex is a matter of discipline, which can’t start early enough because, hope as...

July 2013

July 23, 2013
People in the grip of poverty can pray—and grasp—the Lord’s prayer, especially the line, “Give...
July 18, 2013
In Resurrection Year, author Sheridan Voysey nails it on the head when he writes, “childlessness...
July 11, 2013
It’s been twenty-five years, and words spoken after our first miscarriage still rankle. People didn’t...

June 2013

June 27, 2013
Introduce regularity to your spirituality, and your brain, given its plasticity, can become more serene...
June 21, 2013
When my daughter Chloe was a couple of years old, she’d climb onto my lap,...
June 13, 2013
It dawned upon me on Friday night, as I sat anonymously, or nearly so, in...
June 06, 2013
They’re still teenagers, still prone to gruffness and grumpiness—but for several hours a week, they...

May 2013

May 31, 2013
They’re formulas, after all—not prophylactics that protect us from death, ignorance, pain, and evil.
May 23, 2013
My wife, Priscilla Pope-Levison, whose book Building the Old Time Religion will be out this...
May 15, 2013
So what are we left with this ordinary Pentecost Sunday? Wait together, pray together, study...
May 14, 2013
Utter abandon and utter clarity. What a thrill, to feel God so deeply and to...
May 09, 2013
I’m writing for the survivors, scarred (scared, too) people who keep swimming, the relentlessly faithful,...
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