Articles

  • The 400 Not-So-Silent Years

    I don’t believe God is ever silent in our world, and our siblings in Christ from the Catholic and Orthodox traditions have Bibles that do contain writings from the “400 silent years.”

  • Michigan Ballot Proposal 3 and the Presbyterian Church (USA)

    “When an individual woman faces the decision whether to terminate a pregnancy, the issue is intensely personal, and may manifest itself in ways that do not reflect public rhetoric, or do not fit neatly into medical, legal, or policy guidelines.

  • Remember the Sabbath

    During my freshman year of college, I read an interview with then-retired PC(USA) pastor Eugene Peterson where he talked about his practice of Sabbath. To this day I still remember the rule he and his wife used. He said, “We could do anything, but nothing that was necessary.”

  • The Sacred Ordinary

    Right before Kristen and I went into quarantine for covid, I had been out serving communion to folks at home and in care homes. When I got home that night, I put the broken bread and container of grape juice in the refrigerator.

  • Feel Your Feels

    If you happen to turn on your television or computer (or even open your newspaper or advertising mailer), you’re likely to see advertisements of people who are happy because they purchased the latest Thing – a new car, a new truck, new prescription medicine, a new streaming service, a dating app, even a hamburger and…

  • How We Become Ourselves

    If we are formed by watching how other humans behave, how much more are we formed by our understanding of how God acts?

  • Can Christianity Adapt and Change?

    Last week someone said on the internet that religion cannot learn or grow because to be faithful to your religion, you must keep all your practices exactly as they were when the holy book was written. I don’t think that’s true at all, especially of Christianity.

  • When the End is a Beginning

    As we look at the cross and the ascension, when it seems like God is gone, like it’s all over… something unbelievable may be just about to get started.

  • There Is No Tiger

    I recently had a meeting that I was very anxious about. I worried I had done something wrong and was going to be in trouble. I played and replayed different things I wanted to say in my head. As I headed for the meeting, I could feel the adrenaline making my heart pump faster and…

  • On Vocation

    God calls people all kinds of ways, sometimes at the same time.