Caring is complicated. Which means parenting is complicated. And friendship is complicated. And working in care-giving jobs is complicated. What…

I’ve been thinking a lot about truth-telling lately.I’m working on a presentation for a preaching conference next month. I’ve titled…

For some, the relationship between faith and American citizenship is quite simple: there’s no tension at all. To be an…

The New York Times has been, one suspects, doing very well these days through its Games/Puzzle division.  Of course for…

I was surprised to see the book framed by Samuel 8. The people came to Samuel and said: Place a…

Those difficult spaces become places that draw you together, rather than driving you apart.

Distant from my parents’ and their parents’ worlds, scrambling to understand my children’s world, I feel a kind of chronological…

How long ago? It was back in the days of the dropkick, a move designed to surprise the defense and…

it isn’t technological prowess that sets humanity apart, rather it is an emergent capacity for self-reflection about how we relate…

The difference between proficiency and deficiency evaporates—there are simply two team members, two equal persons, two fellow human beings, two…