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Outrage is all the rage these days. From a pandemic to politics to everything getting cancelled to nothing being in stock, we’ve all witnessed our fair share of anger in the public milieu. We the people have got some anger…

“This resurrection life you received from God is not a timid, grave-tending life. Its adventurously expectant, greeting God with a child-like, ‘What’s next papa?’” Romans 8:15 MSG Adventure is not what I had in mind when I left my front…

I once heard a story about a woman who was turning left on a two lane country road when another driver came roaring up behind her, smashing into her minivan at full clip. The cars careened around the road like…

Here we all sit hunkered down in our house bunkers. We seem to have two things in abundance these days. There are numbers. Lots of numbers. There are big growing numbers like coronavirus infection rates and unemployment filings and days…

Where do we go for peace? Where do we go to get our bearings again? So much of what we’ve leaned on, those givens in our lives, are cascading around us like a tossed deck of cards. The COVID-19 pandemic…

“Give thanks in all circumstances.” Paul (1 Thess. 5) “You’re blessed when you are ravenously hungry.” Jesus (Luke 6) Gratitude is getting a fresh make over these days. What could be mistaken for a Sunday School lesson theme from a…

Picture it with me. A man walks along a mountain path amidst towering aspens and pines. The tree cover here dances shadows around his feet. His pace is easy because he’s really not trying to get anywhere. He closes his…

“It would seem that our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to…

This post originally appears on And Sons magazine’s website. You can read it here. Be sure to stick around there and check out the rest of their offerings. They have a good thing going. — Trail running has become my…

I was invited to write this post for the wonderful group of people at the Downtown Reading Society (my post is here). This courageous community is wrestling with the concept of justice and all its rivulets. I have deep respect for the…

Its marriage advice most Christians hear at some point. Don’t go to bed angry. Make up before you sack out for the night. I’ve certainly heard it my requisite few dozen times in books or sermons on marriage. And I’m…

“We become free by transforming ourselves from unaware victims of the past into responsible individuals of the present, who are aware of our past and are thus able to live with it.” Alice Miller Its time to leave starving children…