Organizations often implement transitional processes for people in leadership. These processes ensure the preservation of information and stability as one leader leaves and another takes over. Intentional transition plans prove healthy...

Today’s reading is a continuation of Tuesday’s passage, when Moses asks God more than once to send God’s presence along with him and the other Israelites. God agrees to go with...

Jesus has shown us what is Caesar’s. But he leaves us to ask ourselves, “What is God’s?” The answer is, of course, everything! Everything we have belongs to God, and how...

Behind the Pharisees’ question in this passage is a test of loyalties. Over and over again in this section of Matthew, some religious leaders have been trying to trap Jesus. They...

I live right at the bottom of a mountain. As I go through my days, I regularly come face-to-face with my own smallness, and I’m reminded of the beauty and majesty...

Do you have a friend who puts a smile on your face every time you think about them? First Thessalonians is a letter overflowing with Paul’s fondness and gratitude for his...

Moses already knows that God has called him to lead the Israelites to the Promised Land, but he wants the details. In the previous verses, God has said it’s time to...

A few days ago I was deeply frustrated over something that had gone wrong while planning our family vacation. The problem was my own mistake, but I still felt outraged that...

And finally, my kindred siblings, finally, let us think on what is beautiful and alive and life-giving. Rather than figuring out how we can defeat the other political party, or drawing...