I look up and see heavens so vast and mysterious that I feel lost, wandering in a cosmic wilderness. The infinite immensity of space threatens

I couldn’t make sense of the signage. The further I walked up the trail, the further I was from the end. Then I realized that

The God of the scriptures does not have a heart of steel; God has a heart of flesh, a bleeding heart, and God has eyes

Job hopes that God will long for him and come calling. In short, he hopes that God will remember him. In the life and ministry

Compassion Fatigue In his landmark book The Prophets, Abraham Joshua Heschel describes the character of God: God loves the people of the world fiercely and

The biblical portrayal of darkness, explored in Part One of this essay, is multivalent. While some passages portray darkness as a negative force trying to

Editor’s Note: This is the first of a two-part series on applying a biblical understanding of darkness to one’s life. Part Two will run next

At the beginning of every Christmas season, I descend the stairs to the basement and search the backroom for a large brown box marked “Christmas.”