Sitting in a hall with my fellow university classmates, I waited in tense silence for the French test to be distributed. This was my final language exam, and I needed to...

The apartment building I had lived in for four years closed. As my neighbors and I began to move out, I marveled at the amount of stuff people had been able...

When I served as a pastor at a church in Pennsylvania, someone called me with a personal concern. As the conversation ended, I asked if I could pray with him. Sounding...

On my way to work this morning, I looked up at the sky. The rain during the night had stopped, and I could see blue sky between the parting clouds. The...

Usually when I say, “I trust you,” what I mean is: “I’m counting on you to do what I want or expect,” or, “I trust you to get this job done...

The Baltimore Orioles have been one of the worst-performing teams in baseball the past few years. But as a lifelong Orioles fan, I still root for them. If I stopped cheering...

Spending the night with my 92-year-old dad in his hospital room was a hectic experience. Between temperature checks, blood pressure checks, the noise of the ventilator tubes, medication alarms, and nurses...

My church has recently undergone a split where about half of the congregation has left for a variety of reasons ranging from doctrinal disagreements to personality differences. In today’s reading Haggai...

Many years ago I took a rock climbing course at a local college. The instructor put me in a harness and instructed me to climb to the top of the wall....

When I was 13, I went to live with my aunt and uncle on their farm. One of my daily tasks was to strap a long burlap sack across my body...