I love tradition. I adore meaningful ceremonies and deliberate, annual remembrances. The Christmas season is especially ripe for tradition, which may be the reason I loved the season even before…
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Last year when my community group read through John’s account of Jesus raising Lazarus, I saw the story with fresh eyes. The striking aspect of the story, which I had…
Yesterday my niece posted a picture of her three spirited children —all under the age of 5 —with this caption: “Tomorrow’s Friday…which means nothing when you have kids.” I refrained…
As we have been reading in John the past two weeks of Jesus’s crucifixion, I am struck once again by God’s upside down math — the death of One that brings life…