I still remember the first I was told I was going to hell. I was 15, and our youth group was ripping “For Those Tears I Died” by Marsha...

Charlie Kirk is dead—shot during a college speaking event in Utah. I will not pretend to admire him in death. His politics were malicious...

This last week I found myself in a crowded board room in Tehachapi. Parents had gathered, upset about a transgender child at the middle...

Today I slipped into the sanctuary when no one else was there. No sermon to polish, no list of things to check off. Just silence, a few...

Recently, a local Bible teacher and religious studies scholar reached out to me with a question: “What’s your Lutheran perspective on...

The first time my would-be wife came to my house, she perused over my bookshelves and said, “I’m a little concerned about all these books...

There is nothing new under the sun.” That’s what Ecclesiastes tells us, and I’ll be honest, it’s not always the most comforting line in...