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It took a while for me to get to know Thomas. For years, I knew of him by the wholly inappropriate nickname, Doubting Thomas. Growing up...

Hildegard of Bingen was a Christian teacher, writer, composer, and spiritual visionary, who was born in Germany at the end of the 11th...

All Saints Day Sundays have become among the most meaningful Sundays of our year in worship for me. Remembering those we have lost, who...

Hate may fill the hole in a wounded soul, but just for a while. It may fire a sense of purpose and drive. It may be the admission ticket...

It had been one of those nights when it felt as if, with enough of a shove, the entire world might split at the seams, coming apart, with...

As our time apart due to the pandemic goes on, I’ve been wondering what exactly this experience is doing to us, not just physically, but...

Could I just tell you a story today? I’ve been thinking about heaven a lot lately. Maybe it’s the wars. Maybe it’s the sense that the...

When Susanna, our daughter, was quite young she would sometimes bring me things she would want me to place high on the top shelf of my...

Today, I’ve been thinking about the gift of family and feeling grateful, especially, to have artists, poets, sculptors, and potters in...

Grief is sometimes a fierce companion; love mixed with tenacity, patience (and sometimes surrender) is what gets you through. There are...

“A single person is missing for you and the whole world is empty.” The line is by Joan Didion and is found in her book, The Year of...

If you want the world to be a good place, you need to live to your best to be a good person. If you want the world to be a loving place,...

In my life and in ministry, I have learned a lot about grief. What I have learned that is most important about grief can be summed up in...

if this was the last day of your life what would you do? if this was the last day to taste a peach or a strawberry? the last day to smell...