When my adoptive mother died, the process of mourning was short. In fact, half of the family, including me, didn’t even go to the lunch after the burial.

God is not indifferent or uncaring, but perhaps his silence is there for a reason. Wilderness moments are important spaces that force us to shift our understanding of God and make us more conscious of him.

My siblings and I can’t seem to agree on end-of-life decisions for our parents, and they do not have a living will. How do we find consensus, if not agreement?

I have discovered that in the land of the lonely, one has an immense wardrobe of masks. It makes me wonder what the true face underneath is.

In a sense, I had embraced All Lives Matter as a movement many years ago.

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My church expects parents to help in children’s worship once a month. Is that necessary? What do we gain and what do we lose?

Why have differing expectations recently caused friction in some churches?

When we look at the world today with all its problems, from wars and racism to abortion and climate change, we are tempted to despair.

In Spanish, “armadillo” means “little armored one.”

The time of COVID is challenging, but how we view our existence in it and how to structure our days is a spiritual discipline.

Let me give you three reasons why I think the resurrection of Jesus was not made up by early Christians.

By offering death as an option to those expected to die in the “reasonably foreseeable” future, Bill C-7, many disabled people fear, would provide an incentive for their mistreatment or even unwanted death.

If people have talents in music, writing, hospitality, technology, or some other area that could benefit the church community, do they have an obligation to do so?

Could any of us have guessed, when all this started, that we would still be facing the wrath of the Coronavirus a year later?

지난 해는 힘든 한 해였습니다. 하지만 소망이 있습니다.

To help you decide, ask how this position might allow you to love God and love your neighbor.

Although it’s not considered polite to describe the gory details of childbirth and daily motherhood, this is the way Jesus chose to come to us.

Young people aren’t growing up in the same world their parents did.

As details emerge about Robert Aaron Long, 21, the suspect in three Atlanta-area shootings, it seems that the man accused of killing eight people is a committed Christian.

The more funds we can raise through advertising and donations, the less we need to rely on ministry shares.

A Christian concerned with social justice is often seen as a “bleeding heart,” for compassion is considered a soft thing compared to the “strong” virtues of fairness, obedience, or lawfulness.

A poem of suffering.