Heidi Haverkamp

When Jeanne Bishop learned of her sister's murder, she found herself saying aloud, "I don't want to hate anybody."

Three times a year, a worship service ends and I go back to the vesting room to change—and I feel as though I'm walking into a time warp.

The mainline has struggled to express an ethics or spirituality of sexuality. Verlee Copeland and Dale Rosenberger seek to fill that gap.

One way to approach the epistle text for this week is to talk about the spiritual discipline of saying yes and saying no, an idea I was first introduced to by M. Shawn Copeland. (I find The Message translation of this passage helpful here.) God created us with the freedom to say yes and say no. But as Paul reminds us, we don’t always know how to use this freedom very well.

We learn to be Christian not when we succeed at perfection but when we realize that we will always fail.

Some thoughts on preaching the binding of Isaac.

Could Abraham know that God is testing him?