I don’t know where you imagine God is when you pray or think of God, but for much of my life when I thought of God, I assumed that God was distant, far way, removed.  It was more than just a geographical sense or assumption, but a relational one as

A couple of weeks ago after church my family and I loaded up the van and headed out of town for a quick two-day camping trip in the mountains.  As is typical for a pastor family when trying to get out of town on a Sunday, we hit the road

Maybe the “can’t-get-it-together,” doofus dad tropes found in sitcoms and movies over the last thirty years didn’t help cue you in, but present and engaged fathers are super important. In honor of Father’s Day, here are a few positive things to keep in mind about the significance of being a

This is not a position piece.  My goal here is to help people think more deeply about the moral aspects of abortion.  We are all susceptible to regurgitating the mantra-like taglines that surround us, whether that be in politics, sports, or social topics.  Most of us want at least to

This past Monday was a national holiday called Memorial Day.  It is a special day in the United States for remembering those who died while serving in the country’s armed forces.  It is sometimes confused with Veterans Day, which is a national holiday to honor all those who have served

Throughout scripture, God and pursuers of God continually implore us to “look to God.”  This is such a constant encouragement in scripture that “look to God” could very well be the summation of the life of faith or the Christian Life – a life spent looking to God. Looking to

There is this scene in the Bible where the Israelite people do something that seems rather comical and silly to us today. God had recently liberated the Israelite people out of generational slavery in Egypt and began leading them to a new land that they could call their own.  Along

There is part of a poem that has become an old saying, “The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.”  It is the refrain in an 1865 poem by William Ross Wallace called, “What Rules the World.”  I highly encourage you to read it. Motherhood

Memory is crucial to living well.  It is how we learn from the past to navigate the present and live into a better future. History is memory beyond the individual level.  It is the preserved memory of our species.  What we remember and whether or not we remember has a

I’ve long suspected that the first two chapters of Genesis, written some thirty-five hundred years ago, had the right take on male-female relations. In our modern Western world, the battle of the sexes is all too often just that, a battle, an antagonistic competition.  Too often in human history women