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On Theological Arguments

Why are we hard, even difficult, with the people with whom we largely agree? When we discuss our theology, we are often not simply giving our opinions, but our convictions. And it is sometimes hard to delineate between ourselves and what we believe.

A Meditation for Christmas Day: God’s Difficult Gift

O. Henry's story, "The Gift of the Magi" is about costly giving out of love. Bishop Joey Royal writes that the costliest gift, though, comes to us from a loving Father: the gift is Christ.

When Love Comes Knocking

M. Night Shyamalan’s latest film, Knock at the Cabin, is an adaptation of Paul Tremblay’s novel The Cabin at the End of the World....

Quality of Love

When I became pregnant, I learned that veteran parents talk to parents-to-be almost exclusively in clichés: “Sleep while you can”; “Your life is about...

Don’t Follow the Science

Reflecting on the surreal experience of the pandemic from the vantage of a little temporal distance, as one does, what sticks in my craw...

Remembering Life’s Journey

I have not seen the movie Barbie, and most likely never will. But I have two daughters who, when they were of an age that...

On Loving God

By Kate Marsh Before we got married, I remember asking Graham what he meant when he said that he loved me. Of course, I was...

Love Gleaned, Offered, and Received

Ruth 1:1-2:23 By Brandt L. Montgomery On today, the Feast of the Epiphany, we are again invited on a Good Book Club journey through Scripture, starting...

Love, Prayer, and Her Majesty the Queen

By Jonathan Turtle Like so many people I was deeply saddened by the recent death of the Queen but it didn’t quite hit me until...

Forgiving Yourself

Last December my husband and I went to a party where we saw many old friends from a ministry we were involved in decades...

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