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We were determined to find the ducks that were quacking in the middle of the forest. But that’s not what we found.

Power-over is coercive, controlling, and manipulative. Power-with is collaborative and authoritative.

We need not a new approach, but a return to the ordinary tools by which Christ has always formed his people.

As I write this article, I’m wearing the handmade friendship bracelet Maddi gave me. She made it herself. She even tied it on my wrist for me. It’s been with me ever since.

We must demand accountability for those who have been notified of abuse allegations, only to rationalize, cover up, and even deny them.

You make one decision for biblical reasons, but then you might run into some contradictions.

The purpose of church discipline is to restore to Christ those who are sinning.

Do we choose God or does God choose us? Admittedly, there are Bible passages to support both.

My parents need more support, but my siblings don’t want to help. How can I get them to step up and honor their father and mother?

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My lifelong Christian identity meant patriarchal Abraham had been my spiritual father. But now I realized l also had a genetic connection to him.

While our national discourse rightfully condemns Islamophobia and antisemitism, the systematic persecution of Christians around the world receives only a fraction of our collective outrage.

I need to spend more time on Bible study. Is there a best way to do that?

Whatever it is you want to do someday—whatever it is, go home and do it today.

It was so natural to spoon nourishment into the mouth of a toddler. It was so strange to spoon food into the mouth of a 90-year-old man.

How do these two things connect?

It means a whole lot to us who are left behind if you take care of things beforehand.

Despite technology providers’ claims to the contrary, is it possible that our digital devices have made modern life less interesting?

Gravity is easy to observe and to measure, but we still don’t fully understand why it works the way it does.

Little did we fathom that our new bundle of feline joy came bearing surprises.

One rainy Sunday in late September, a thin, young figure trudged onto the bus with a bright red blanket wrapped around his shoulders.

One of my goals in teaching African church history is to dispel the myth all too present in Africa that Christianity is a white person’s religion.

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