The story of the "widow's mite" challenges us to evaluate the way we give differently. We generally want to donate to causes we...

What's the right answer?  Perhaps all our years of schooling have conditioned us to believe that we're supposed to always...

Why am I not healed?  Why did my loved one die?  There are persistent questions that even when not spoken...

I saw a cartoon recently that made me chuckle.  On the left side was a group of men with "Dad...

American Civil Religion.  It is not a defined religion or denomination, but a cluster notions about God that many Americans...

I believe that one of the tensions underlying much political division and rancorous debate today is wildly different understandings of...

Where is true wisdom to be found?  Business success?  Advanced degrees from prestigious universities?  Political leaders?  Social media 'influencers'?  I...

"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me" is a lie.  There is far more...

When my father-in-law died quite suddenly in the summer of 2000, over 600 people came to the calling hours at...

Martin Luther, the 16th century monk, theologian and major driver of the Reformation, was rather famous for not liking the...