This world that we live in is without a doubt being shaken. For good or for ill, each day brings a new challenge. These challenges are causing us to rethink and in many cases to relive our daily routines. The political, the economic, the cultural, the legal are all being...

It seems to me how tremendously easy it is to forget that our time on this earth is limited. When Jesus speaks to Peter that Peter has set his mind on earthly things when he should instead have fixed his mind on divine things, it serves as a reminder to...

Imagine if we remove from the human condition our resistance to living fully for God. Every day we would wake not seeking to, but actually being fully connected to God. In Hebrew the word for this kind of life and world is Shalom. It is a world in which harmony...

The calling of everyone who follows after Jesus; who lives in the glory, who chooses the extraordinary way, is to lift up those around us, to join in their struggle for justice and righteousness, to become battered and bruised. Our calling is to speak to the systems of power in...

Reading through the Bible, it is clear that God has always been the one that reaches out to us. The very heart of the Biblical witness is that God loves his creation, so much so that God came down to earth to be a part of that creation. This is...

It seems to me, a modern world makes stories in the Bible of demon possession hard to accept. After all, we no longer attribute to the demonic things we can’t understand. Usually, when people act as the person did in the reading, we surmise something other than demons. We live...

Now some 2000 years after Jesus, we doubt that we can be with God in that same unity of Spirit as Jesus was. This doubt is the struggle of today’s Christian. And so we live our faith believing that unity will come some day in eternity, or disbelieve unity at...