After the flood, Noah and his family heard from God. After shock and grief and struggle, after being quartered—quarantined—with their closest relatives and all the animals they could gather on a...

A group of seminarians, mostly commuter students glad to catch up with one another, chatted on their way into worship on a Wednesday morning in February. The sun shone on their...

Psalm 51 asks for God’s assistance in heart renewal. This psalm is ascribed to King David and associated with the aftermath of his affair with Bathsheba and his plot against her...

With Lent just days away, we have a decision to make. Will we give up chocolate or yarn-buying, or take a sabbatical from social media? We might take on a practice...

Earlier this week we reflected on Elisha receiving the mantle of Elijah and our formation in Christian community. Jesus shaped the lives of his disciples as they followed him along dusty...

Jesus takes Peter, James, and John and leads them up a mountain. There they witness a dazzling light and the ancestors, Moses and Elijah, talking with Jesus. What do we make...

There are troubling words in Psalm 50: “Before [God] is a devouring fire.” For months in 2020, we watched as Australia burned. The Australian wildfires covered an area twice the size...

The opening verses of this psalm paint a picture of God calling to us “from the rising of the sun to its setting.” This transforming God yearns for us to notice...

Last spring our Academy group traveled from our retreat center into the heart of Birmingham, AL, for a civil rights pilgrimage. We walked through the Civil Rights Institute, witnessing the stories...

I serve on the leadership team of the Alabama Two-Year Academy for Spiritual Formation, a program of The Upper Room. As the worship leader, I plan and lead the fourteen services...