Simple machines help us by following the simple rule God made for them: When you increase the distance over which force is applied, you decrease the force needed.

Am I happy with how my life took shape?

It’s a fairly common experience for a waitress to ignore me and only talk to the non-disabled person I’m dining with.

I can hardly imagine my becoming a pastor without having experienced the life of a parkie for the past four seasons and befriending the beautiful and complex people who live in the parks.

There are two ways we can read the Bible: as if it’s a mirror or as if it’s a pair of binoculars.

Many young families have enrolled their children in various sports programs, which are healthy but often conflict with Sunday church services. Consequently, we don’t see these families in church often. What can be done? How should the church handle this?

What is the primary role of the church in God’s mission?

Perhaps because grief weighed me down, every day seemed cold and rainy.

An Indigenous Cree and follower of Creator Sets Free (Jesus) reflects on the two lenses needed to consider the news of “no human remains found” at a Canadian residential school.

Let us learn to take the often tough, long, and tiresome road.

Does God want us to create computers with artificial intelligence even though he gave us perfectly good brains to do the work ourselves?

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Exploring the interconnectedness of faith and love.

Rest, whether it’s sleeping or just taking a break, is important for our physical and spiritual health.

Our Christian Reformed church called a minister from the Reformed Church in America, and the RCA church in town called a CRC minister. Is that allowed?

If we use our imagination, it’s possible to see loon calls as symbols of our calls to and from God. The more I explore them, the more similarities I see.

My college-aged children seem to focus mostly on hobbies. I want them to find joy and fulfillment, but I’m concerned about their ability to pay their bills in the future. How do I bring up my concerns with them?

God himself is beauty, and God creates beautiful things.

Confused and disoriented, he was making his way home from the grocery store.

During our drive to church, I peeked at the picture a few times. It brought a smile to my face each time.

James 2:26 (“Faith without deeds is dead”) seems to contradict Galatians 2:16 (we are “justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law”).

When dealing with family trauma, should Christians choose self-preservation or self-denial?

Understanding what we have in common helps me not only to understand my own cognitive function, but to better support those living with dementia.