Grief

How should we talk about and process grief?

Working through difficult times is a necessary part of life.

Befriending Lament

I had dinner with my 84 year-old neighbor last week. Recently widowed, he has been alone and fending for himself. When...

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Shalom or Slogan?

The pairing of words in Isaiah 61 comes to mind often, poetry to a world of contrasts. Isaiah describes a coming...

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Saying Goodbye to Rachel Held Evans and Exploring the Sanctity of Life

Cameron McAllister and Nathan Rittenhouse discuss author and speaker Rachel Held Evans' life and legacy, and then turn to consider the Christian understanding of the sanctity of life, and its bearing on the current abortion debates.

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Dealing with Grief

In 1974, Ravi’s phone rang with the message that his mother had passed away. On today’s Just A Thought, he shares...

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Lament and the Journey to Resurrection

It was a cold February at Christ of the Desert monastery, high in the mountains of northern New Mexico. Behind the...

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Stepping into the Reality of Suffering

I recently sat across from a woman I wanted to adopt as a kind of nonna.(1) Originally from Croatia, she spoke with a...

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Ashes and Promises

Ash Wednesday is the beginning of Lent, which many Christians observe with fasting, repentance, worship, and prayer in...

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Man of Sorrows

“Prosperity, pleasure, and success may be rough of grain and common in fibre, but sorrow is the most sensitive of all...

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Reaping Joy From Tears

God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen is one of my favorite carols of the Advent season. God rest ye merry gentlemen Let nothing...

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Into the Waste Land

"April is the cruellest month..." begins the first line of T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land. The poem is thought to be a portrayal of universal despair, where we lie in wait between the...

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