The Israelites have an idea of how things should be going on the other side of slavery. Given their cries for help, they clearly don’t think life is going as planned....

The Lord makes it clear to Moses that the Israelites’ prayers of complaint will be answered. God will test the people and see if they will follow the instructions. In our...

The whole congregation of the Israelites complained against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.” Their complaining takes a serious tone: “If only we had died by the hand of the Lord...

How awkward it must have been for Peter to get a lengthy answer to his simple question. He asked for a number. In return Jesus gave him a piercing illustration with...

What do we live for? For the bulk of my adulthood, the answer to that question was my reputation and my validation. In practical terms, that amounted to my work and...

Production lines have a standard that helps determine when a product is fit to move to the next stage. When it meets the criteria, the item is compliant. If it doesn’t...

There are experiences that mark a transition from what has been to something new. These shifts alter the very fabric of who we are and how we live moving forward. It...

I am Canadian through the gift of immigration. My husband and I became immigrants in midlife, emigrating from Venezuela to Canada with enough years of lived experience to remember the past...

Walking through the hall of an intensive care unit, where life is often measured in heartbeats, I can easily identify the guardians, parents, or spouses: When the hands of the clock...

It can be tempting to breeze through the parting of the Red Sea. We might miss the essence behind this fantastically familiar Sunday school story. The treasure lies in the “why”...