A healthy relationship with God requires both faith and works. Faith acknowledges the relationship we have with God, both individually and as a community. It understands and holds dear the privileges...

Yesterday’s reading from Proverbs revealed that measuring people’s worth by their wealth is an illusion. God created all of us, and our common humanity can bring us together. Today’s reading from...

In our twenty-first-century world, e-mail, social media, and 24-hour news sources connect us in ways unimaginable to previous generations. Our technologies and online lives bring us seemingly closer to one another...

Song of Solomon is one of the briefest books in the Old Testament with only one hundred seventeen verses organized into eight short chapters. However, as its other name, Song of...

Please don’t ask me to officiate any more weddings,” I begged my two clergy colleagues on our church staff. After a string of wedding mishaps, I needed a break from less-than-ideal...

The heading of this psalm titles it “a love song.” In actuality, it is a royal wedding song. When read in its entirety, the psalm elaborates on the fine clothing of...

Fifty kids and leaders tumbled out of the minivans and car pools that carried them to the Bible school field trip at the community garden. Half an hour later, after instructions...

The Pharisees and scribes are Jewish religious leaders who hold tradition in high regard. In the missing pieces in between the portions of this text, Jesus points out that these leaders...

James speaks as a realist. He recognizes the specific hindrances that block our faith, and he calls them out for us. Ego and anger, James knows, are two serious impediments to...

Pay attention to the words people speak as you get ready to walk out the door,” our chaplain supervisors advised us during our training as student chaplains. And sure enough, they...