When I first began reading the Bible and would come across passages like Matthew 16:13-20, where Jesus asks the
Living in the Bodies We Have and Not the Ones We Don’t
For the past year, I’ve been fighting two wars. The first is a book manuscript dealing with bodies, the incarnate
Celebrity Christians and Our Own Idolatry
There's an awful division afoot and we like to think of it as a modern thing, never more necessary than in times like
It’s Not All Going to Burn
Once, while two friends and I walked the coast of Maine, through tall sea grasses and rock walls on a November day where
On Graying Toward Glory
Last week I made an appointment to, as they say here in my non-native Texas, get my hair did. The grays have been
Feast on the Lord During Lent
On Fat Tuesday, the day observers of Lent have historically glutted themselves with donuts and king cakes, fried food
4 Ingredients of a Good Apology
Any squabble in a preschool classroom will show us the main ingredient in moving on is a well placed, “I’m sorry.” But
We Are Unfinished, Yet He Loves Us
We’re a few weeks into all those resolutions we made on January first. Or if you’re like me, the resolutions you didn’t
At Peace and in Place
We’re nearing the end of 2018 and as much as most of us wish we could reflect on a year of relative peace with an