What if I read you a story, Starting: “Once upon a time”,And you realized that it was your life,Spelt out on every line.Would you hear my voice with wonder,As it brushed…

I can remember not many years ago when the local and the national news before Christmas was mostly about crowded shopping malls, interviews with Santa, providing meals to the poor…

What Have You Done to Us? Jesus, what have you done to us?We wanted a pet kittenAnd you turned into a tiger.We liked you the way you were. Why couldn't…

An anonymous author made this striking comparison: "Socrates taught for 40 years, Plato for 50, Aristotle for 40, and Jesus for only 3.  Yet the influence of Christ's 3-year ministry…

Advent is an intentional season of “preparedness.” We think of Advent as a “journey,” to use Oprah Winfrey’s favorite word. We think of Advent as a progressive path we take in order…

It is a story that taxes our imagination—this story of God taking human flesh, of God becoming one with us.  Who but God would choose to enter human life in…

Do you feel insecure as we go through this Advent season? You do if your marriage is less than solid. You do if your job is at risk. You might…

You may remember the humorist Sam Levinson. Sam tells the story of the birth of his first child. The first night home the baby would not stop crying. His wife…

Many people today see public life as an amoral struggle for profit and power and relegate morality to the shadowy realm of private choice and "lifestyles."  What we need is…

African American poet Langston Hughes asks a question in one of his poems, “What happens to a dream deferred?…Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?…Or does it explode?” …