Holy Week Through the Lens of Covenant Faith

Holy Week Through the Lens of Covenant Faith

The traditional reminders of the details of the Gospel’s Easter portraits are so familiar that finding creative ways to engage that experience can be a challenge. Sometimes an encounter, or a combination of encounters, can bring fresh insight into a familiar...
Health Care Workers in the Line of Fire

Health Care Workers in the Line of Fire

There have been more than 100 attacks on hospitals and health care workers in Ukraine since the Russian invasion began. This is based on World Health Organization data as of April 11, which also reports 73 deaths and 51 injuries resulting from the attacks. These...
Are You a Walking Contradiction?

Are You a Walking Contradiction?

When does it end? Lent is not merely a season but a reminder to pay attention to those who are suffering. If our eyes are fixed on Jesus, then how can we ever look away? Lent is not 40 days, a six-week series of steps. No, Jesus is always around here somewhere in the...
Faith as the Clouds

Faith as the Clouds

John Claypool once observed that the Bible is written in the language of people and events. The Bible speaks of faith in a wide variety of ways – narrative, poetry, song, parables, correspondence, prophecy, wisdom sayings, pithy stories, comedy, tragedy and fairy tale...