Rachel Held Evans, who gave voice to a burgeoning community of progressive Christians, died this past Saturday in Nashville. She was 37. Evans abandoned the evangelical church in 2004, describing […]

John Earnest was an earnest anti-Semite. Before opening fire in the Chabad Synagogue near San Diego during a Passover service on April 28, he published a rambling online manifesto that […]

The bowl rested on a small table near the altar. Inside, coiled like little snakes, were white rubber bracelets imprinted with blue letters: WWJU The “U” threw me for a […]

The other day, in the wee hours of the morning, a spring storm blew in with the fury of a toddler whose favorite toy had been taken away. We woke up […]

My dad grew up in a Texas sharecropper’s shack during the Great Depression. He was barely a teenager when the “Grasshopper Wars” began. The winged insects darkened the sky like […]

Last year, I came across the phrase “God Wink.” It was coined by American author and inspirational speaker, Squire D. Russell, who defines it as “an event or personal experience, often […]

My Facebook feed has been blowing up with Epiphany posts lately. You may have noticed that some of your friends have recently observed Epiphany and wondered what the fuss was […]

The crèche is a familiar sight during this time of the year. You can find simple nativity scenes on the mantles of homes, and more elaborate ones on town squares. Some […]

On November 29, my wife and I became grandparents for the first time. When I walked into the hospital to see my daughter cuddling little Charlotte, it was a magical […]

The political season seems to bring out the worst in some people. With midterm elections around the corner, I have seen snarky, rude and arrogant social media posts from both […]