Katie Hines-Shah
Katie Hines-Shah is senior pastor of Redeemer Lutheran Church in Hinsdale, Illinois.
It's Advent, and accusations against prominent men are shaking things up like a highway construction project in the wilderness.
Every child is from God. Joseph gets an explicit divine promise.
What a relief it might be to middle-class America to be sent away empty.
Matthew's geneaology underscores that God has always worked through messy and broken families.
Jesus' ministry is not what John the Baptist expected it to be.