When my mentor suggested we study the book of Deuteronomy, I thought, “Really? Deuteronomy? Isn’t that one of the books that makes people quit their Bible-in-a-year reading plans?”

Someone I care about is unemployed and looking for work. How can I best help them?

Honoring Native American heritage feels differently for me as a new immigrant at this particular time in history.

I’m a boomer who has started to use emojis. Is that a bad thing?

We cannot erase our emotions, but we can learn to lower their intensity so that they become more manageable.

We are to be God’s ambassadors of reconciliation, showing how a world so bent on murdering each other can be shown how to love each other and even to do the impossible in loving our enemies.

Even our very best words fail to capture the power, beauty, and glory of the uncreated and everlasting God.

If God loves the world (John 3:16), why are we told not to love the world (1 John 2:15)?

A good pastor is hard to find—in art, at least, if not life.

The cold hard fact is that we are all addicted to sin and every one of us struggles for sobriety from it. Repentance offers a way to be free.

This is just one example of how well-meaning Christians, all with valid reasons, all respecting Scriptural authority, can in good faith have different interpretations of the same passage.

What is cultural appropriation? Why is it wrong? How do we avoid it?

Would it be better to toss denominations into the ash heap of history? I don’t think so.

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My teen is always coming up with foolish ideas, and we end up arguing endlessly. Any thoughts on how to break the cycle?

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.

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

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.

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.