Living between the Bible’s first and last prayers
Most days I hover somewhere between Adam’s “I was afraid” and John of Patmos’s “Come, Lord Jesus.”
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How I came to love embodied prayer
I tried it—and I began to experience God in places other than my head.
Living a simplified life in France
Eric Freeze and his family moved to Nice—in order to spend less and live better.
Rachel Gross wants to blur the distinction between Jewish culture and Jewish religion
Being Jewish goes beyond the synagogue.
Drawing close to Howard Thurman
Two new books invite us to learn from what others have loved about the civil rights icon.
The grace of holding my dying father’s hand during the pandemic
The word contagion comes from the Latin words for “with” and “touch.”
Karl Barth’s wisdom for fathers (and mothers, and all children of God)
Before you had a human parent, you had a perfect one.
Lucilla Goodman and other ordinary saints
Her epitaph, “She hath done what she could,” says a lot.
How Princeton Seminary’s slavery audit created moments of unlikely intimacy
We need structural change. We also need to be willing to be personally undone.
Where is my love to go?
Imagine God asking that question. You’ll get an insight into God’s heart.