Costly devotion
Those wise men brought such manifestly impractical gifts to the infant Christ: gold, frankincense, and myrrh.
Are we done with the ’79 prayer book?
In 1997, Neil Alexander said that "it is not a perfect book and could stand some general improvement in some fairly critical places. But I believe ..."
Mrs. Truax and the importance of Sunday School
Every Sunday, throughout most of my elementary school years, Mrs. Truax taught a class of one: me.
Giving is a holy madness
In terms of stimulating pleasure, charitable giving is neurologically on par with eating fudge or getting laid.
Rachel Held Evans, adult conversion, and the necessity of confirmation
Let's not be quick to discard the best things we have to offer.
Mercy and judgment: on baseball and steroids
In 2013, no baseball players were considered clean enough to be honored with Hall of Fame induction. Sometimes justice demands that when sin has worked its way so deeply into a group of people, the whole thing must go before there can be a new beginning.
Graveyard homes
My wife and I are raising our two sons in a graveyard. For the churchyard is clearly a place for the living, as well as the dead.
Reclaiming time
“Seven times a day do I praise thee; because of thy righteous judgments”, sang the Psalmist. In an age when the motion of the clock seems increasingly without form and void, ordering time according to the rhythms of grace is a subversive act.