Haiti saddens me.  It saddens me in part because so many have lost so much.  It also saddens me because I care so little. I don’t say this flippantly.  I say this because it’s the reaction I have right now.  It’s not something I’m proud of; it’s simply what’s going on at this moment in...

Paul had claimed he learned to be content in every situation. As Acts closes Paul shows us that the freedom of a Christ Follower isn’t measured by the absence of chains or prisons, but by one’s capacity to love God and humanity in the face of all resistance. By reasonable human standards Paul wasn’t...

I’m working on a book about Christmas and I’ve been wrestling with the ugliness of what Biblical scholars call the Slaughter of the Innocents. I hate that Jesus came to Earth in a way that caused countless infants and children to be murdered by King Herod. In fact, I struggle with the Bible...

He was big. Like a vending machine. And as black as coal. I don’t mention that because I’m racist, because I don’t think I am. I mention it because he was. His eyes were sunken into his skull and the whites around his dark pupils burst with brightness by contrast. My one-year-old daughter knew...

Readers, it’s my turn to offer the mediation. I’m between trips to South Carolina and Chicago. I hope you’ll forgive me for posting a rough experience that I went though a little over nine years ago instead of offering a new post… Shortly after 5 AM on Martin Luther King Day,...