Devotional

The Zulu word for God is Nkulunkulu, which roughly translates to “big-big.” Though I’ve known this word my whole life, until recently, I’ve never stopped long enough to recognize the […]

The big fish gets all the glory, but the most powerful characters in the book of Jonah are the sailors who thought they were welcoming just another passenger onto their […]

It never fails. As I ramp up to the big finish of my sermon, where my rhetoric starts to soar and the prose turns a little purple… As I deliver […]

I have a friend who can tell you the exact moment he stopped believing. He was ten years old when he realized that the Bible stories he was being taught […]

I love the liberal arts. I don’t love the way parents tell their children not to major in philosophy or English or history because “they won’t be able to get […]

Peter claimed he was ready for death. Jesus called his bluff. When the hour came, Peter ran and hid. Maybe Peter should’ve said, “Lord I wanna be ready to go […]

One of my friends, Pastor Eric Elnes, says he is building the “new Jerusalem” in the metaverse. Most of my friends prefer the shopping aspects of hybrid worship more than […]

It’s late August. It has just occurred to me that I should check to see if our son’s backpack from last year is still fit for use. I take it […]

On a day not too long ago, to a standing-room-only audience at the newly rechristened Lena Horne theater, a surprise eulogist said: “So many of us think about who or […]

Sometimes the horizontal surfaces at my house require my Tetris skills to tuck and balance things piling upward. When they do, I zealously donate, recycle, or discard items that no […]