No step taken in faith is wasted, not by a God who makes all things new..

I’m ready to stop waging war and start washing feet..

While the word charity connotes a single act of giving, justice speaks to right living, of aligning oneself with the world in a way that sustains rat….

The truth is, a man can choose to objectify a woman whether she’s wearing a bikini or a burqa. We don’t stop lust by covering up the female form; we ….

What millennials really want from the church is not a change in style but a change in substance..

Perhaps we could push beyond these legalistic gender roles if we spent less time worrying about “acting like men” and “acting like women,” and more t….

But the gospel doesn't need a coalition devoted to keeping the wrong people out. It needs a family of sinners, saved by grace, committed to tearing d….

Doubt is a difficult animal to master because it requires that we learn the difference between doubting God and doubting what we believe about God. T….

And so, at least symbolically, the blood of Eve courses through each one of her daughters' veins. We are each associated with life; each subject to t….

Imagine if every church became a place where everyone is safe, but no one is comfortable. Image if every church became a place where we told one anot….

I'm a Christian because Christianity names and addresses sin. It acknowledges the reality that the evil we observe in the world is also present withi….

We all long for someone to tell us who we are. The great struggle of the Christian life is to take God's name for us, to believe we are beloved and t….

You can't get too far into the Gospels without noticing that Jesus made a pretty lousy apologist..

Whenever we show others the goodness of God, whenever we follow our Teacher by imitating His posture of humble and ready service, our actions are sac….

The woman described in Proverbs 31 is not some ideal that exists out there; she is present in each one of us when we do even the smallest things with….

God and the Gay Christian is a game changer. Prepare to be challenged and enlightened, provoked and inspired..

It is a tragic and agonizing irony that instructions once delivered for the purpose of avoiding needless offense are now invoked in ways that needles….

What makes our marriage holy, what makes it "set apart" and sacramental, isn't the marriage certificate filed away in the basement or the degree to w….

Church is a moment in time when the kingdom of God draws near, when a meal, a story, a song, an apology, and even a failure id made holy by the prese….

Scripture doesn't speak of people who found God. Scripture speaks of people who walked with God..

What each of us longs for the most is to be both fully known and fully loved. Miraculously, God feels the same way about us. God, too, wants to be fu….