A pop song came out in 1982 called “Heartlight.” The love song was part of the soundtrack of the child-friendly sci-fi movie E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. E.T. is a frail and skittish...

As a child, I was both terrified and tantalized by The Wizard of Oz. The Wicked Witch of the West scared me, but I loved Glinda, the Good Witch of the...

Today is my birthday and, like every day since I turned thirteen, I will put in my contact lenses in order to see clearly. I have astigmatism. The prefix, a means...

Questions abound in Isaiah 40: Have you been paying attention? Who is like God? The questions continue in these verses: “Have you not known? Have you not heard?” In other words,...

Have you ever walked away from a tense conversation won-dering what caused you to get so worked up? Something was at stake for you that surprised you and caused a defensive...

The hidden way of God is the way of becoming whole. How do we reconcile a biblical witness of God’s own self being revealed with the Son of God working to...

At work in the world is a force of wholeness. It can be unseen and misunderstood, overlooked and discounted. At the heart of the created order resides the heart of the...

Do you remember working to learn the right answers so when the questions were asked you could raise your hand and speak the answer, receiving acknowledgment for being a good student?...

Isaiah poses many questions, questions that are spoken out into the world, pointing to that which can’t be contained in a single answer. Can we link remembering to imagining into the...

The people of Israel had to adjust their understanding of what God was up to when the Babylonians took them into exile. They felt abandoned by God. Now the prophet asks...