The Christian family is both exceedingly large and exceedingly diverse.  The faith of the billions of people who have called themselves “Christian” over the last two thousand years from all across the planet has varied greatly.  There are and have been differences in how they understand scripture, the rituals they

Jesus has a lot to say about people who are “rich” and people who are “poor.”  In fact understanding what Jesus teaches about the rich and the poor is a vital part of the framework for understanding and living out the Christian life. Unfortunately for those of us in modern

Anger has gotten a bad rap – undeservedly so.  Anger, like all other human emotions it is an important gift.  Like all other emotions, it’s how we handle it that makes it good or bad. I’m sure the majority of people at some point have witnessed the damage that out-of-control,

I didn’t write this. Only once before have I posted someone else’s writing, but this was good. It is so good that it was hard for me to read, especially the first part. She is speaking to me and to my experience. It took me a long time to learn

Prayer changes things.  Making requests of God changes how things are and will be. This is the consistent claim of scripture and a concept that we see Jesus attempting to get across to his followers on nearly every page of the Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John – the parts

In the Apostle Paul’s letter to the church in Collosae, he seems to have coined this wonderful word “ophthalmodoulia” (see Colossians 3:22).  It is a combination of two words “opthalmos” or “eye” and “douleia” or slave – in other words, “eye-slave.” The short paragraph that he uses it in reads

Perhaps you will remember learning in school about the famed 1925 circus of a court proceeding commonly referred to as the “Scopes Monkey Trial.”  I believe it is the most famous trial in American history regarding whether or not Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution should be taught in public school

We’ve all been there. Life will bring you there again.  Somehow. It’s that place where life itself feels like claustrophobia. It’s that place where there is no way to get THERE from HERE. It is the place where hurdles loom up like mountains. You are stuck. There is no way

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

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