Prayers for all who feel loneliness or grief...when we remember those who are no longer with us. I invite you to recall in the darkness of your grief that our Creator loves you so much and that you are promised to always be loved, and never to be alone. This presence...
Unthinking faith is a curious offering to be made to the creator of the human mind.
Don't let anyone convince you to park your brain at the door... not at home, not at school, not at work, and certainly not at church. Using our intellect... including reason, wisdom, and discernment...is one of the ways we honor our Creator.
O great Creator of being, grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives.
Jesus made it clear that the moral demands of the faith he taught centered on love, justice, and mercy. I believe that God is, here as everywhere, nudging Christians toward love—love for the Creator, love for other people, love for self, love for the world God has...
From the Native Americans' marginalized position, they have a unique "bias from the bottom" that we would do well to pay attention to. We could learn from them, among other things, that land cannot be owned and Spirit cannot be divided. The Earth and all its...
If it [our framing story] tells us that the purpose of life is for individuals or nations to accumulate an abundance of possessions and to experience the maximum amount of pleasure during the maximum number of minutes of our short lives, then we will have little...
To refresh and re-energize, we can learn a few things from our devices. Disconnect, power down, unplug, re-charge, re-connect. When we ignore the 'low battery' warning in life, we risk hyper-anxiety, depression, chronic fatigue, and burnout. If our Creator rested on...
I have the sense that part of what it means to be human is that, on this side of Jordan, even on my best days I will always feel a little homesick for intimacy with my Creator.
All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.