Devotion

How can I grow in love for God?

Why does God seem so absent?

Remembering Forward

For most of us, the act of remembering or revisiting a memory takes us back into the distant past. We remember people, events, cherished locales and details from days long gone. Of...

Faithful Inconvenience

On December 1, 1955, she was asked with three others to relinquish her seat on a crowded bus for a white man who had just boarded. Though they were already seated in the section...

Journey into Shadow

In J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Frodo, the young hobbit, has been given the burden of bearing the one ring of power. It is a ring that has the potential to put all of...

The Face as Figure

Thomas Grüter has always had trouble putting names with faces. But unlike most of us who might have trouble recollecting the name of the man who just said hello, Grüter's trouble...

Something Understood

In an essay titled "Meditation in a Toolshed," C.S. Lewis describes a scene from within a darkened shed. The sun was brilliantly shining outside, yet from the inside only a small...

The Gifts of Magi

I was sold on the genre of tragedy as a child at Christmastime, long before I knew anything about genres or tragedies. Jim Dillingham Young and his wife Della are the subjects of...

Into the Mystery

"A comprehended God is no god," a great thinker once said. His words come to mind on days when I feel stuck somewhere wearily between a cynical world that lives as if God is...

The Art of Abiding

When it comes to exercise many of us ask: “How long will it take?” or “How much do I have to do?” The shorter the duration the better, we hope. Scientists at McMaster...

In Pursuit of Spirituality

There is a growing interest in new spirituality in our times. With its all-inclusive approach to religion accompanied by its emphasis on the spiritual disciplines, the East has...

Love and Rules

Christianity is nothing more than a set of rules! Have you ever said or heard this before? The question or objection, depending on how it is phrased, comes from both Christians and...

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