The Practice of Belonging
The eternal words of the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu really help me with both the Read More
Today's Disciplines Devotion
While I was serving in a cross-racial appointment, a congregant once remarked, “I can’t tell if you are a Republican or a Democrat.” I chuckled and replied, “Can you tell I...
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We are in God’s time. God’s own life encircles our beginning and our ending, permeating our present with the reality of eternity. Now we have life eternal. Yet we still hear...
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No person of faith is ever alone. Our faith points to a greater reality that surrounds us. We have communion with God through Jesus Christ. God has brought us through the...
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Grace means divine presence. It means life with a giving God who never tires of offering us the inexhaustible riches of the divine life. In Jesus Christ, we learn that those...
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Loss can be a heavy burden. Whether it is unexpected and sudden or slowly and inevitably irreversible, our minds move to the desire for restoration. Yet desiring restoration can sometimes feel...
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Waiting for the Lord’s help is holy work. Yet it is work that could easily make us despair if we don’t remember what it means to wait on God. The psalmist...
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The prophet is looking for God who seems to be hidden. This sounds absurd, both the looking for God and the idea that God hides. But this is a common scene...
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In today’s passage, we read how the Son of Man will separate the righteous from the unrighteous like a shepherd separates sheep from goats. It’s an apocalyptic passage that exposes the...
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When I lived in Silver Spring, Maryland, I spent most of my free time hanging out at the National Mall in Washington, D.C. As a novice artist, I couldn’t get enough...
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At the outset of the Thirty Years War, a French soldier by the name of Nicholas Herman had a profound encounter with God. After being wounded in battle, he entered a...
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As I stare at a blank computer screen this morning, I’m reminded of the absence of words, sounds, smells, and images for some of us during the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays....
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