Last week we took note of the striking fact that in Philippians 1 Paul was able to put up with some people who, although ...

Annie Dillard’s Holy the Firm was published in 1977 – the year of my birth. This short memoir spans three days of her life living in a cabin in the Puget Sound. “Nothing is going to happen in this ...

Annie Dillard’s Holy the Firm was published in 1977 – the year of my birth. Twenty years later, I wrote a paper on it for ...

My faith rests in the eventual restoration of all things and the resurrection of the dead. Resurrection demands that the dead ...

My faith rests in the eventual restoration of all things and the resurrection of the dead. Resurrection demands that the dead are truly dead.

She often wore a bright pink jumper, and he donned a variety of colorful ties. They became for me a symbol of the best a ...

She often wore a bright pink jumper, and he donned a variety of colorful ties. They became for me a symbol of the best a ...

Now, nearly 30 years ago, when I first arrived in my Iowa pastorate, there was a group of older people in the church, most of whom had come to that congregation in the 1950s and ‘60s. They were people ...

I’ve found my way to a new trail. I don’t yet know its footing, so I cautiously watch each step. I don’t know the folks I pass by, though we are becoming familiar with each new day.