Romans

Air travel—perhaps paradoxically—tutors us in patience, a practice in short supply in today's world.

Air travel—perhaps paradoxically—tutors us in patience, a practice in short supply in today's world.

Dhini didn’t ask to be adopted. That's the way grace works.

Dhini didn’t ask to be adopted. That's the way grace works.

Dhini didn’t ask to be adopted. That's the way grace works.

Dhini didn’t ask to be adopted. That's the way grace works.

God's "consuming fire" is the fire of holy love. It doesn't await sinners in the future; it burns up sin itself.

I am confident that the new creation will include animals. I hope that it will include Merle, my deceased smooth-coat collie.

These Trinity Sunday texts show God moving graciously—and persistently—toward people while they struggle to stay on their feet.

While Christian scholars have long questioned body-soul dualism, it remains common in church circles. This may finally be changing.

While Christian scholars have long questioned body-soul dualism, it remains common in church circles. This may finally be changing.

Reconciliation requires relocation. To see the effects of our food choices, we have to get close to the land.

I got the epidural. As the pain receded, I felt an ache of disappointment settle in.

I got the epidural. As the pain receded, I felt an ache of disappointment settle in.

The Spirit who raised Jesus from the dead is working to infiltrate the whole creation with God's love.

When I combined the popular ideas of God in my mind, I ended up with a strange stew—a lover God who would torture me with fire if I stepped out of line and bless me with diamonds if I obeyed. In other words, my image of God had a serious borderline personality disorder.

In 1983, Kenneth Mitchell and Herbert Anderson wrote that "death is only one form of loss." This would have been unthinkable for Christians half a century earlier.

As God's people, we are the remnants and promise of new life.