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It's Advent. What are we waiting for?

For some kids, jail is a school field trip. For others, it's nearly inevitable.

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I am grateful for John the Baptist's indictment.

New churches and the people supporting them need to understand the commitment they're making.

If people can approach the faith without thinking they already know what it is, they might hear the good news for themselves.

Decades worth of data have proven that poverty shortens lives. Will anyone respond?

Like everything else in human experience, sometimes our longings need to be reoriented and redeemed.

I watched the full moon cover mundane scenes with its glow. Isn't this what Advent is about?

At first I found the "little flower" insufferable. Then I read her unedited writing.

What troubles me about the holy family's flight to Egypt is that God, in Jesus, runs away.

Empress Theodora is mainly known through the writings of a man who hated her. But there's more to her story.

 We’re watching our country go through the rejection of its political and religious institutions. Why are they important?

Repentance—getting in touch with our roots—is the ultimate retro.

Norman Wirzba views theology and ecology through 1 John 4:8, "Whoever does not love does not know God."

Part of being a pastor is dealing with impossible expectations for worship.

This year, as I meditated on my longing, my pregnant hope, I located it on that table, somewhere between the salad and the ravioli, when our imperfect lives came together.