A head-scratching Super Bowl ad Of all the buzz-worthy Super Bowl advertisements this year, one left a lot of people scratching their heads and also stepped into controversy by… read more

How do you measure a year? In “Seasons of Love,” the centerpiece song of the Broadway musical Rent, lyricist Jonathan Larson asks us to consider, “Five hundred… read more

The place of prayer “I’ll pray for you.” It rolls off our tongues so easily when someone shares a struggle he is having or her worries about a loved one. As we… read more

Two weekends in December Just when it seemed it couldn’t get any more difficult to talk about, it did. For weeks in the fall of 2014, after the shootings of unarmed… read more

Easter: An End or a Beginning? On Easter morning, some will come to worship because they want to experience an ending and others because they want to experience a beginning. Some … read more

A Passing Thought As the cup fills with my morning coffee, I think to myself, “I should change the water filter on the machine. It’s been several months.”… read more