After the show was over, again there was no vestibule to ease ourselves out of darkness and into the light of day. The sun ...

Whatever you are facing in this season, however dark things might seem, remember that light has come and is coming again, and ...

Echoing Christ’s God-and-Mammon juxtaposition, Paul draws a connection between money and worship, arguing that the choice to ...

Call it the “Christmas cloud”—that unwelcome shadow suspended over many in December. For the Christian, it’s hard to admit.

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It’s audacious, really, to celebrate Christmas, to sing “Joy to the World” in the midst of war. We can, though, for we know ...

I live in that dark land. I am both a creation and a creator of it. Yet if I admit that the darkness dwells within me, I am ...

The answer is as clear and serious as the noonday sun: because Jesus is real. The incarnate Son of God, Jesus Christ, is our ...

Norman Rockwell’s 1943 oil painting, Freedom from Want, features a tableau of personalities around a dinner table. Their ...

Jesus did not despair. He was not confused. He did not seek vengeance. He even instructed one who drew a sword in his defense ...

Advent reminds us that no matter how dark we might sense the world to be, we are known and seen by the God who so wonderfully ...

The eerie thing was, as I gazed upward at the brilliant spectacle, the immediate darkness in which I stood was just as ...