Kia ora (hello) from Aotearoa New Zealand, a tiny country famous for beautiful scenery and being home to hobbits!
Sadly, New Zealand was in the…
I have always been anxious. My mother deemed me a “worrywart” at age six when my bedtime prayers became a desperate cadence of catastrophic scenarios: “Please God, no…
01/23/20 at 07:59 AM
I was devastated by the Tree of Life Synagogue shooting in October 2018. I cried on and off all day. I was attending school in Pittsburgh and drove…
01/22/20 at 07:58 AM
And the Lord will become king over all the earth; on that day the Lord will be one and his name one.
Zechariah 14:9 (NRSV)
When I was seven, my father took me to a barricaded road in Oka, a little town in Quebec. The barricades had been erected on one side by Mohawks…
01/21/20 at 01:02 PM
I never get tired of watching movies. Something about a beautifully constructed film that captures the emotions of an era, encapsulates the seriousness of a historical event, or…
01/21/20 at 07:59 AM
On February 27, 2012, three students died and another was paralyzed in a shooting at Chardon High School in Ohio.
We’ve been through pain and fear.
How can any good come…
01/20/20 at 11:40 AM
In the week ahead, offer prayers for the people of Cyprus, Greece, and Turkey.
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01/19/20 at 03:52 PM
I wonder, God:
Why do we have excess food when so many are hungry?
Why are children abandoned?
Why are entire countries devastated…
01/19/20 at 01:15 PM
I’m glad that only God can see my true self; yet, if everyone could look at me through God’s eyes, they would see me in a different light. They…
01/19/20 at 07:59 AM
A small and tattered beggar boy
stood looking down the street.
His clothes were mostly patches,
and no shoes were on his feet.
He came upon a bakery;
he stood and peered…
01/18/20 at 05:56 PM
Have you ever stopped to think about the questions God asks? For many years I missed them somehow—perhaps because I thought of the Bible as a book…
01/18/20 at 01:01 PM
