Church of the Beatitudes, Israel. Image: Unsplash Letters to My Inner Critics   This is a new project, the concept of which came across...

Photo: Unsplash Luke records in his gospel (Luke 10:25-37) a conversation between Jesus and an Israelite expert in the Law of Moses. The...

Image: Unsplash Uzzah touched the ark of the covenant and dropped dead. Was that fair? He was being conscientious in his duties. He was...

Image: Unsplash The night after I was baptized as a 22-year-old mother, I sat up late and cried. From the moment I made a profession of...

Veteran's Cemetery Photo rights: TA Boland Recently I had opportunity to honor my husband’s memory on the 10th anniversary of his...

Pic: seetheholyland.net One Sabbath day, a Saturday, while all Jewish people observed the no work law, Jesus went up to Jerusalem to...

Image: Unsplash Standing on Temple Mount in Jerusalem, I was surprised to see and hear many birds. The entire rock structure is home to...

Image: Unsplash “Dear, Lord, please forgive me for those things I did all those yesterdays ago.”   “Which thing, which yesterday?”  ...

New Dungeness Light Station, Sequim, WA              One of the most memorable weeks I’ve spent traveling was as part of a seven-day crew...

A number of years ago, I entered the jail on a Sunday afternoon as was the custom for myself and a friend. Because recidivism was always...

Image: Unsplash Sometimes on a random Tuesday or other non-church day, I will get a nudge in my heart to observe communion. This...

Image: Unsplash As a young mom with three kids under five and a husband who was routinely deployed, moving furniture was an issue....

Image: Unsplash In Mrs. Lindsey’s fourth grade class, she was known as Debbie the Duck. She was an odd one, with a wild mop of bright...

Pic: Unsplash This time of year, I often reflect on a chilly day some twenty years ago standing on the roadside waiting for the...

Hillsdale College offers free online courses on many subjects. Recently, I was listening to a lecture in the course for “Theology 101:...

Have you ever read a story in the Bible that scared you or kept you awake at night? Maybe you’ve read the story before but for some...

Have you ever thought to yourself that the life change you are trying to make is taking too long? Or maybe the stage that you are in...

One of the hardest truths of spiritual life comes in the moment when we say to ourselves, “I can’t”. The realization that we failed to do...

Have you ever felt like a side note in the story of God’s work in the world, incidental in the work of the church, or the spiritual...

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