In 1989, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court handed down its now-infamous “Reindeer Ruling.” Controversy erupted in a municipality in the hilly western side of the Keystone

One of the best books on the craft of writing that I’ve read in a while is Verlyn Klinkenborg’s Several Short Sentences about Writing. Klinkenborg

In a very deep way, the entire Christian life in this world is lived in Advent, between the first and second comings of the Lord,

At last [Sam] gasped: Gandalf! I thought you were dead! But then I thought I was dead myself. Is everything sad going to come untrue?

Akedah I’ve always shuddered at Genesis 22. As a child, I’d read the story of Abraham’ s willing journey to sacrifice his son Isaac (which

The Sabbath itself is a sanctuary in which we build, a sanctuary in time. Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Sabbath Road Trip We were hours into

Down the Basement Steps Every now and again when I was young, my parents would have congregants from the church my Dad pastored over for

Mystery & Manners Last week, the doctoral cohort I’m participating in with the Eugene Peterson Center for Christian Imagination converged to spend a week together.

A person who wronged me deeply, recently asked for my forgiveness. This person (I’ll call him Harrison) had done some things that were deeply harmful