Last summer I took a homeless man into my home for an overnight stay. His stench followed him up the stairs where he steamed up my...

Have you ever noticed that when church people say, “God is good!” it’s often in the context of God doing something good for them? I got...

“I want to start a group,” I told my friend one day. “A group for people who want to talk about God or gods, and spiritual-not-religious...

When my pastor asked the congregation to join him in a prolonged fast, I was tempted to decline. Grace and freedom, you know—the stuff of...

Matthew 5:1-16 (My Paraphrase) Blessed are those who know they have much more to learn than they have to teach, and who are more eager to...

Perhaps you’ve done it—balanced an egg on its wide end sometime during the vernal or autumnal equinox. A friend of mine introduced this...