Does the Bible Leave You Disquieted? Read This Book (Even Better, Win a Free...
The Bible is an invitation. An invitation to contemplate who we are, as individuals, communities, and as a species. An invitation to contemplate and encounter what is holy and sacred, which is found...
View ArticleA Christian Response to Brittany Maynard’s Decision to Die
The face on this week’s People magazine cover is Brittany Maynard, a 29-year-old, recently married woman who went public with her plan to take a fatal prescription on November 1, rather than live with...
View ArticleIt’s Still a No Brainer for Christians to Support Gun Law Reform
When it comes to many controversial sociopolitical issues facing Christians (and everyone else) today, I usually take, or at least acknowledge, a middle road. For example, on the use of genetic and...
View ArticleWho Exactly Are “the Least of These”?
Which interpretation of Matthew 25 is more likely to inspire us to love our neighbor, to do justice, to walk humbly (emphasis on “humbly”) with our God? The interpretation that draws a line between...
View ArticleBig Gifts of a Small Life: Meeting God in Sticky Floors, Carpools, & the...
We must believe that it's necessary to go on with small acts of daily care even as the world seems to spin out of control.
View ArticleA Cancer Memoir that (Mostly) Gets It Right
I have rarely read a book that inspired so many different reactions, in such quick succession, as Heather King’s new memoir Stripped: At the Intersection of Cancer, Culture, and Christ. On one page, I...
View ArticleSpotlight: A Film About Devotion to Truth, the Church, and a God Who Shows Up...
Of the many remarkable things about the new film Spotlight, the most remarkable is that this moving, engrossing, occasionally thrilling movie is mostly about a bunch of people—a team of investigative...
View ArticleHope is the Hard and Necessary Work of Advent
Practicing Advent hope in the face of hopelessness is the fundamental—sometimes hardest—work God has given us to do. We are tempted to either rush through the disquieting ambivalence of Advent to get...
View ArticleMy Christmas Pageant Moment
This post was originally published on the Episcopal Café web site on January 21, 2010, and has been reprinted in my church bulletin for several Christmases. When I wrote it, my kids were much smaller,...
View ArticleThe Limits of Gratitude
Gratitude is having a moment in our culture. Lifestyle gurus, including Oprah, tout the positive effects of expressing gratitude through letters or journal entries. Ann Voskamp’s book One Thousand...
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