We are tired of multiverses, because multiverses are exhausting.  Every variant of every narrative?  It's inhuman, unmanageable, utterly...

Growing up, personal prayer disciplines weren't really a thing I learned in church. I did pray, but it was primarily something I did at ...

Rache and I have, for the last few months, been watching our way through The Righteous Gemstones.  As a lampoon of American prosperity relig...

One of the great and paradoxical joys of my deepening middle age is the absence of sleep. I remember, when I was twenty or thirty, that slee...

The morning was bright and sharply cold, the sky a deep rich blue.   The pup set out across the driveway with me in tow, eager to go about h...

As a Christian, there is, in this political season, a deep and abiding temptation.  I feel it, as others feel it. It is the danger of confla...

The question, one that pressed into my soul yesterday, was this: How to pray for Donald J. Trump following the attempt on his life?  As a Ch...

As a pastor, I will happily pray when asked.  Want to start something with prayer?  I'm there  Unless it's a family dinner, when I...

It was one of those moments, peculiarly bright and unusually deep with the Spirit's light.  After a couple of years together, my DMi...

He arrived on my doorstep yesterday, back from his journeying, haggard and with eyes overbright with his illness. I kept the dog back, a...

Dear Father God, I just want to praise You for Your glory today! I just feel so blessed to have such an awesome life, and for giving me ...

I am painfully oblivious to sports. There was a period when I was not, back when I was a youngling.  While living in England, I was an e...

This last Sunday, I sat down with my session and finalized my commitment to depart my current congregation at the end of October of 2011.  A...

My discarded sermon concept for this week came in my reflections on Luke's story of the teaching of the Lord's Prayer. In keeping m...

One of the ways I tend to feel closest to God's presence in my admittedly rather feeble prayer life is by practicing self-emptying. Thr...

As my little congregation continues to wrestle with some pretty deep organizational and spiritual challenges, I find myself struggling with ...

The walk begins with a thought, a lament, a hard realization. I am crappy at prayer. Not bad at Scriptural Analysis. Slightly better t...

One of the wonderful things about looking at Scripture for a living is that I am always--always--being struck by something that I've n...