Between my nephews and my own children, I have been blessed to be a part of a birthing team five times. On five separate occasions, I have been handed the scissors...

Twice a year every year—usually around New Year’s Day and then again at the beginning of summer—I get this bold idea that I am going to start working out and get...

As a United Methodist preacher’s kid, most of my childhood was spent moving around a lot. I attended three different middle schools, two different high schools and lived in two different...

A few years ago my wife and I were looking for a new home. We enlisted a real estate agent who set up appointments and guided us as we visited a...

My wife and I are “swim parents.” Our oldest son is the swimmer in the family. Most of our weekends are spent in stuffy, non-air conditioned, chlorine-smelling gymnasiums surrounded by hundreds...

I have a peculiar diet. I cannot eat red meat or pork products, and I am severely lactose intolerant. As a result, I often prefer eating out at restaurants over visiting...

I am a lover of all things jazz and grew up playing first the alto and then tenor saxophone. The first time I told my uncle, who also loved jazz, that...

Already it’s a new week. A new season of the Christian year (again). In this season of Epiphany, we will move between God speaking, first at the Baptism of the Lord...

God likes to do things by sending us another way. Ancient Israel had long expected a glorious reign of a promised king from the line of David. But for most of...

We return to Paul on the road to Ephesus and his encounter with the disciples who are so close to getting it right. In proper Paul fashion, Paul gathers them in,...