Circumcision is one of those topics I don’t remember ever learning about when I was in Sunday school. As a matter of fact, not only did my Sunday school teachers avoid this topic but so did my parents, the pastors in the churches I've attended; even my religion teachers
In the story of creation we’re told that God created everything, but then it tells us something very peculiar. The text says "God saw all that he had made and it was very good." Gen 1:31 What a strange thing to say. Doesn’t it seem a little odd to
(This devotional was written in the midst of the Covid pandemic 2020 and yet I’m hopeful that the message applies even today) Every once in awhile something will happen in life that makes me see a passage in the Bible as never before. Acts chapter 2 had always seemed
When I was in seminary I served as an intern in a church where one of my responsibilities was to work with the high school youth group. A few months after I began, I was pulled into a conflict between two parents and their daughter. They asked me to
The last year of my dad’s life he called to congratulate me on something good that had happened for me. I wasn’t at my desk so he left a voicemail. Because he was pretty sick I could barely hear him, but I heard just enough to know that he
I was in a discussion recently with a group of friends. Things got pretty heated between some in the group. I sat quietly, listening, observing, not really wanting to dip my toe into the choppy waters of this conversation given the strong opinions represented. I was content to sit
