A labyrinth is a kind of maze. It’s basically a perfect circle with a path that curls inside leading to a center point. Like the one at...

On the last night Jesus spent with his disciples the Gospels record two different scenes. You, Too, Must by Lisle Gwynn Garrity, A...

When we think of Moses, we generally remember the man who would turn out to be God’s partner in the liberation of the Hebrew people from...

Perhaps the most common question I am asked as a pastor is how to encounter or meet God. As humans, who are continually seeking to follow...

Pentecost, fifty days after Easter, is the day we celebrate the Holy Spirit descending on the disciples sounding something like a mighty...

In the Gospel of John, when Jesus gathers with his disciples in the upper room on the night of his arrest, John records the longest...

I am rule-follower. I appreciate knowing that there are rules and regulations, standards and expectations, dos and don’ts in our daily...

We find the shortest verse in the Bible in John 11, “Jesus wept.” Break Open by Rev. Lisle Gwynn Garrity, A Sanctified Art When faced...

Trevor Hudson writes, “Each of us sits next to a pool of tears. As you read my words you are sitting beside your pool; and as I write...

There’s no denying it, the world in which we live is growing more divided, more isolated, and more disconnected. Over the last several...

It’s Easter evening when we meet Cleopas and his unnamed companion walking to Emmaus. Neither are really known characters in the Gospel...

There is something about Holy Week, and especially Maundy Thursday, that gets me every year. On Maundy Thursday, we remember that before...

Sunday marks the beginning of Holy Week. Even the Stones Will Cry by Lauren Wright Pittman, A Sanctified Art It’s the beginning of a...

In his collection of essays, The Weight of Glory , C.S. Lewis writes, “It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and...

As Luke sets the scene, Jesus is in trouble for hanging out with the wrong people. When “all the tax collectors and sinners” come and...

As we flip ahead to Luke 13, we find ourselves in the middle of Jesus’s teachings. Jesus tells them a parable. There is a fig tree...

As we find ourselves with Jesus on the road to Jerusalem, we come to what has always been one my least favorite texts. Yes, you read that...

Some of my favorite places in creation come from the in-between spaces. In the space between night and day, the sun and atmosphere  ...

On Sunday we celebrate Transfiguration Sunday, the peak of the church season we call Epiphany, which we have been celebrating since...

One of my seminary professors, Kenda Creasy Dean, wrote a challenging book geared towards youth leaders, but applicable to anyone in the...