Making God Believable When Etty Hillesum, the young Dutch writer who would die at Auschwitz, was preparing to leave the transit camp at Westerbork for the train that would carry her eastward, she scribbled...
Collect O Lord, you have taught us that without love, all our deeds are worth nothing: Send your Holy Spirit and pour into our hearts that most excellent gift of charity, the true bond...
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1. The deaths of Wendell Berry and Annie Dillard leave a huge void in our societal consciousness and thinking…though few seem to want to think like these writers invited us to… 2....
Some Things Are Still Not Easy In the early 1990s, I was on the staff of a church in New York City. As part of my pastoral responsibilities, I made pastoral calls at a...
Collect O God, because without you we are not able to please you, mercifully grant that your Holy Spirit may in all things direct and rule our hearts; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who...
What a strange time we live in. Interest in bible translations is exploding through multiple YouTube outlets and I’m getting all kinds of questions…that you may not like the answers to. I say it...
I was preparing to teach from the Older Testament when I was shaken by what I was reading in the text. I’ve mainly been teaching from the Gospels for the last few years, and...
“For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. God sent his Son into...
One Place, One Time… At one time, I served as president of a student theological society in the United Kingdom. Among my responsibilities was inviting guest speakers for our meetings. Through persistence, good fortune,...
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