Articles

Lazarus Waits, Rachel Weeps

Jill Carattini,

Jesus tells the story of a rich man who is content to live comfortably with the great chasm between his success and a poor man's predicament. At his own gate each day, the man...

Come to Me

Naomi Zacharias,

Grief is a strange thing in that its memory is more characterized by what the relationship was or was not than by what characterized the death.(1) You look forward and ache over...

Prayer Request for Pastor Tim Keller

Join us in praying for Pastor Tim Keller who has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

Through Deeper Darkness

Jill Carattini,

Professor and theologian James Loder was on vacation with his family when they noticed a motorist off to the side of the road waving for help. In his book The Transforming Moment,...

The Prophet and the Newspaper

Jill Carattini,

Eighty-five years ago Karl Barth told his theology students to take their Bibles and their newspapers, and read both, adding, “But interpret newspapers from your Bible.”(1)...

Lord, Save Us from Ourselves: A Prayer for Justice and Peace

Ravi Zacharias penned this prayer on July 8, 2016, after tragic events in Louisiana, Minnesota, and Dallas. His words of lament and hope were both timely and timeless, even as we mourn the recent examples of evil and injustice in our nation.

In Defiance, Hope?

Margaret Manning Shull,

For many Jewish people living after the Holocaust, God’s absence is an ever-present reality. It is as tangible as the concentration camps at Auschwitz and Dachau, and as haunting...

The Sheep Gate

Jill Carattini,

“Shepherd” is not a career choice you often hear children dreaming about. Tending sheep is not as adventurous as being an astronaut or as glamorous as being a movie star. But...

The Beginning and the End

Jill Carattini,

"Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me if you understand." —God to Job in the whirlwind To a child of four or five, the rejoinder sounded something...