The cave you fear to enter may hold the light you seek.
03506 – Discovering the Best
When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.
03499 – Christianity and Empire
Christianity loses its truthful witness and ability to prophetically critique the empire the moment it seeks to become an empire itself.
03250 -Making a Difference
One of the greatest joys about working in education is that you are surrounded by people who define their level of success by their level of impact on others. They do this work not because they seek to make a fortune; they do this work because they seek to make a...
03108 – That Great Unending Story
In the wilderness of grief, God provides narrative manna — just enough shape and meaning to keep us walking — and sends the Comforter, who knits together the raveled soul and refuses to leave us orphaned. Sometimes the bereaved say they are looking for closure, but in...
03056 – Such a Love Does Exist
People who know God well—mystics, hermits, those who risk everything to find God—always meet a lover, not a dictator. God is never found as an abusive father or a tyrannical mother; God is always a lover greater than we dared hope for. How different from the “account...
02327 – Seeking Jesus Among Children
We must not seek the Child Jesus in the pretty figures of our Christmas cribs. We must seek him among the undernourished children who have gone to bed at night with nothing to eat...
02259 – God’s New Thing: “Something More”
The new thing that God seeks often occurs in times of disruption, when the familiar world has collapsed and the future is in doubt, when the days grow shorter, and we wonder if darkness will swallow the light... God's new thing is the vision of "something more," a...
01673 – Seeking Christ
They who seek Christ are already being sought of him.