We need not wait until the culmination of all things to experience the joy of God’s justice. The end of days is not the only time we will witness a restoration...

Sometimes the only hope we can find in the rampant chaos that thrives in our world is what today’s reading reminds us—that “kingship belongs to the LORD, and he rules over...

For nations and kings to flow forth from Abraham and Sarah, they need not just to walk before God and be blameless. They need not merely to concern themselves with the...

It’s a familiar refrain, isn’t it, the promise that God will make Abraham the father of many nations? It’s one of those tenets of our faith that slides off the tongue...

On the first Sunday of Lent, Pastor Lewis reached out for something she expected to find on her bedside table, but it wasn’t there. Waking more fully, she reminded herself that...

Taking Lent seriously feels daunting. If we haven’t figured out by Ash Wednesday how we want to approach the season, we may “all or nothing” it; or we might set the...

Here at the beginning of Lent, we begin to ponder the commitment we have made to follow Jesus Christ, most of us seeking some deeper learning or choosing some stricter discipline....

After the flood, Noah and his family heard from God. After shock and grief and struggle, after being quartered—quarantined—with their closest relatives and all the animals they could gather on a...

A group of seminarians, mostly commuter students glad to catch up with one another, chatted on their way into worship on a Wednesday morning in February. The sun shone on their...

Psalm 51 asks for God’s assistance in heart renewal. This psalm is ascribed to King David and associated with the aftermath of his affair with Bathsheba and his plot against her...