The Pentecost story can be, for some like me, greatly intimidating—all that super-charged energy in wild-eyed praise of the risen Lord, sheer madness—enough to make some of us question our place on plastic chairs or hard wooden pews.
Giveaway
I first read about a Lakota giveaway on a Sunday morning in a book about the Yankton Sioux. Giveaways were a means by which wealth was distributed and people gained stature and strength.
The Book of Job and Our Human Suffering
In this world, people suffer. It comes with the territory. You can wish that fact not true, but you cannot wish it away. People suffer.
Empathy That Is Simply Divine
Jesus was human. He was us, for us.
Righteousness and Peace
It may never be ours here and now, but that doesn’t mean we throw in the towel on possibilities—possibilities and prayer, like the psalmist in the gorgeous Psalm 85.
The Voice of His Word
Lake Michigan still leaves me in awe, too full of the touch of its presence to explain it clearly. Its size mocks my smallness.