In our quest to live with hope, the psalmist adds an important piece to the picture. From David, we learn that hope is not an amorphous idea. Hope is trust. And...

We have a friend and conversation partner in Jeremiah. He gets us because he looked for hope the way we do, seeing through hopelessness initially but then seeing beyond it. He...

We write these meditations about two years before you read them. If you recall, two years ago hope was in short supply. Nationally and internationally, civically and religiously, it was easy...

Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice.” We send our children to school hoping they will learn things that are true. We go to Sunday school and study...

Earlier in John’s Gospel the crowds try to make Jesus king, but he slips away. In truth, Jesus is already king—just not the kind of king the people desire. And so...

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German theologian and martyr during World War II, once said that the most difficult thing for human beings to come to terms with is the reality that we...

Some of us attend faith communities where we call the pastor a priest, and it’s his or her role to celebrate the sacraments and pronounce God’s forgiveness. Others of us go...

The sixteenth-century reformer Martin Luther said that the gospel comes to us in the form of promise: God has acted and will act to save us. The God of the Bible...

This psalm begins with the celebration of King David’s oath: “I will not give sleep to my eyes . . . until I find a place for the Lord.” A few...

These verses offer us an image for just, faithful leadership: “One who rules over people justly, ruling in the fear of God, is like the light of morning, like the sun...