The Biblical Case for Conservation
The Bible tells us there is life within the Kingdom—life for us and life for what is around us.
Facing a New Year of Grief
Grief is not a process to work through, a disorder to heal, a condition to treat, or an illness to cure.
“The Sensation of Seeing”: How T.S. Eliot Defamiliarizes the Christmas Story
That which we most value is often that which most frequently slips into dull repetition.
Where Can Wisdom Be Found? -Gambling Pigeons, the Quest for Wisdom,...
Poetry must be experienced, and the experience of poetry is itself a means of searching, a kind of hunting, for wisdom.
Why We Need Christmas Trees
Rituals are our allies in sorrow. They help us appreciate what brief time we had with our loved ones while acknowledging the years we will face without them.
Welcoming a Baby in Advent
Like Mary and all Israel waiting for the Messiah, like a mother welcoming a child, we are to “wait for it with patience.”
Lead Kindly Light
And so, feeling blessed by the rich experiences of my ministry, I stand at the start of a new year in the dying days of the old one.
William James’s Grief
Decades of sorrow and searching for clinical evidence have strengthened his resolve, tempered now by experiences that add up to more than disparate bits of empirical data.
The True Face of Justice is Compassion
He took the words of Jesus to heart—he rarely judged others. When he passed this year, he left a memory not of condemnation, but of mercy.