Real and true faith in Christ is profoundly practical.  It will, indeed must, ultimately present itself in your body, which is a way of saying that if Christ...

Until we collectively own the racism that is our collective national history, we won’t move into the freedom and transformation awaiting us.

What Wholeness of Body Means: Christ followers have a long held tortured relationship with the body. In the church's earliest centuries, the spirit was elev...

Gandhi said, “I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike Christ. Now, more than ever, time to change!

Just over a year ago I decided I wanted to do a February fun run in Seattle because they'd be tearing a road down with a stunning view, and it was my last ch...

I would have despaired unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living - Psalm 27:13 Let everything happen to you: ...

Holy Week is an opportunity, because we’re not seeing Jesus through a, “look what he's done for me" lens. This year, the cross is ours too!

Note to reader: Now that “stay home” has elevated to the status of law in the state I live, my earlier thoughts about viewing this as an opportunity to deve...

All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone. - Blaise Pascal The picture you see here was taken on March 13th, 2020,...

A survey of the Bible finds that whenever there’s a wholesale disruption to ‘normal life’, God can use it to call us back, not to the way things were, but to...

We have a religious world and a real world...and I sometimes think we care more about our religious world than our real world

Three days ago, my world became a bit smaller. This year for the season of Lent I felt compelled to “give up” excess phone applications for these weeks leadi...

people in the Bible who met disorder with enough humility and curiosity to ask God what they should learn come out healthier on the far side

I settled in for the 10 hour flight from San Francisco to Zurich and when the screen at my seat offered the movie “Harriet”, I jumped in immediately, before w...

I recently posted a quote on Facebook from a favorite book of mine. It read: What is saving my life now is the conviction that there is no spiritual treasure...

A little research reveals why the colors change:  because of changes in the length of daylight and changes in temperature, the leaves stop their food-making ...

We’ve always tried to spend less than we make. Eat by candlelight as often as possible (even when you don’t want to.  Sometimes just striking the match can b...