Writing to Timothy, Paul mentions the two-fold essence of ministry, reminding him of the gift he received and the responsibility accompanying it. Timothy is to develop a spark into a flame,...

I so love the passion in Paul’s letters: the honesty, the vulnerability, the anger at times, the longing. I am always intensely moved by reading the lines in which one seasoned...

Certain events described in the Bible were so disruptive to the inherent theology of the Jews that they questioned their whole faith foundation. The Messiah crucified was definitely one of those...

Death, destruction, violence, and suffering are not something constrained to the history books for us to read by the fireplace with a mug of hot chocolate in hand, the wind howling...

The morning headline read “Widow Donates Millions!” As I read the article and learned of the woman who had donated a large sum of money to a nearby university, it was...

My maternal grandparents lived in a small town in Alabama. Everyone knew everyone and everyone knew everyone’s business. People were known or identified by their legal names as easily as they...

There is a difference between being rich and having everything you want. There is also a difference between poverty and living within one’s means. The systems and ideologies that differentiate the...

One of my college professors irritated students who held theological, political, or ideological views that differed from his. Because of his studies and lived experience, he took great pride in exposing...

I once toured the Killing Fields near Phnom Phen, Cambodia. As we moved throughout the mass graves that hold the bodies of more than one million people who were killed between...

An early experience I had with my mother’s care and concern came when I was four years old. My sister was four years younger than me and I wondered if I...