The body is part of how we meet the world. That may help explain why some kinds of rest leave us strangely tired. We stopped ...

The sheer torrent of political advertising hitting us here is stunning. Little of it is positive. Even less of it is fully true.

There may have been a significant issue at stake in all this. But who of us would be surprised were we to discover one day ...

Once, as I was walking off the pitch after a rugby match, a teammate named Jeff, who’d just discovered that I was a Christian and a pastor, announced to me: “Hey! Jared! I started reading the Bible ...

Abraham, paragon of biblical faith, is complicated, contradictory, both faithful and deeply flawed.

Every now and again, the Athletics and Recreation Centre at the university I work for runs a one-off exercise class during lunch hour that staff can sign up for at no cost. And every now and again, in ...

Our faith’s preferred metaphors tend to emphasize motionlessness as the goal state.

Lately, I have been asking some of my friends how much money they make each year. Only one has told me. I understand why. The question can sound intrusive or judgmental. It might feel like the ...

Plenty is quieter than abundance. It does not promise everyone will have everything they want or that hardship will disappear. Plenty asks whether what God ...

When we open a book, we must grant the author and their created world the status of a neighbor. We treat them with hospitality. We ...

It starts as early as playground spats about who gets the best toy. It continues through a lifetime of temptation to break the tenth commandment as we covet any number of things that belong to our ...