While it would be difficult to argue that the Bible is a culinary manual, concerned only with how to eat, what to eat, and when to eat;...

I am terrified of snakes. It doesn’t matter to me whether or not the snake is venomous, I want absolutely nothing to do with snakes. My...

I will confess I have never seen an artisan working with metal in-person, but I have watched YouTube videos. And even on a video, I stand...

Shoshone Base Camp, the camp I worked at for many summers, was nestled deep in the heart of the Idaho Panhandle National Forest. To the...

We believe that God is both incomprehensible and knowable. Over and over again, scripture reminds us that we, as humans, will never fully...

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

Today on Thursday, May 18, forty days after Easter, we remember and celebrate the Ascension of Jesus into heaven. You can find the story...

On Monday, I had the opportunity to meet Emma, our Whitworth Fellow, face-to-face for the first time! And let me just tell you, I am...

On Sunday we will turn back time and we will find ourselves on the night of Jesus’ arrest. Jesus had just finished a last supper with his...

You might recall the familiar fairy tale ending, the perfect resolution to the story, “And they lived happily ever after.” That’s how the...

Easter celebrates the resurrection of Jesus, but the life of faith doesn’t end there. In fact, the resurrection of Jesus is just one...

Our Easter best has been put in the laundry, maybe even washed and dried. Easter lunch is now leftovers, or maybe even gone. The Easter...

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. It’s the beginning of a journey that contains the human story – the highs, the lows, the hopes,...

In the book of Ezekiel, God takes the prophet to a valley of dry bones. As Ezekiel walks around all he can see is bones, just dry bones....

On Sunday, we will hear the story in John 9 of Jesus healing a man who was born blind. It might be a familiar story to you, but if not,...

The book of Exodus recounts the story of how God acts in history to free God’s people from slavery in Egypt and bring them into the land...

On Tuesday, at First Look, we looked ahead to Sunday’s scripture about Nicodemus. You might recall that Nicodemus, a Pharisee, came to...

Yesterday began the season of Lent, a season of the church year that marks the forty days leading up to Easter, mirroring the forty days...

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