Have you ever read the ending of a book before you read the rest of it? Have you ever watched the last fifteen minutes of a film before seeing the rest...

What better indicator of trouble in a relationship than the “silent treatment”? At least when we argue, we engage one another. But when we go silent—either because we don’t care enough...

We haven’t heard John the Baptist’s physical voice in two thousand years, yet in my more irreverent moods I imagine him sounding like one of those colorful parrots that some people...

At this time every year, my kids love to go into the attic and bring down our family’s nativity scene—a hand-knitted, child-friendly set of yarn figures my mother bought from a...

Nothing is permanent, and it is much easier to know this truth than to feel it. No one wants to feel the impermanence of life because that means feeling loss or...

We are in God’s time. God’s own life encircles our beginning and our ending, permeating our present with the reality of eternity. Now we have life eternal. Yet we still hear...

No person of faith is ever alone. Our faith points to a greater reality that surrounds us. We have communion with God through Jesus Christ. God has brought us through the...

Grace means divine presence. It means life with a giving God who never tires of offering us the inexhaustible riches of the divine life. In Jesus Christ, we learn that those...

Loss can be a heavy burden. Whether it is unexpected and sudden or slowly and inevitably irreversible, our minds move to the desire for restoration. Yet desiring restoration can sometimes feel...

Waiting for the Lord’s help is holy work. Yet it is work that could easily make us despair if we don’t remember what it means to wait on God. The psalmist...