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"I am more hopeful about the Iranian future than the Israeli one. The Iranians are at least willing to admit there is a problem."

When my senior colleague proposed a ten-week sermon series on the saints, I was hesitant. Would anyone find this interesting?

Our brains are wired to allow us to read each other's minds, to feel each other's person.

I see the monastery sign and drive past. I know two monks there, and I've been grabbing at every possible lead. But I'm too ashamed to turn in.

I gave the woman a Dunkin Donuts gift card and told her to get something hot. She didn't thank me. She said, "Those mittens look warm."

Nowhere has our callow politics asserted itself more thoughtlessly and noisily than in the politicization of personal or private life.

History is littered with the husks of failed faith-based campaigns to change society. Will the current gun control push be different?

Graham Greene "read theology constantly and always refers to God," says Pico Iyer. "But it's a God he doesn't always claim to know."

Larry wondered what Stan wanted to see him about. Stan was not the sort of parishioner who often asked for counsel or help with a problem.

Conflict is neither good nor bad. It is just inevitable, and it’s another tool for leadership. Jesus Christ started most of the ones he experienced, so why should his faithful disciples expect to avoid them?

Some questions won't go away. The creed says Jesus was crucified "for us," but what do those two little words mean?

A church is not a building. But I believe a church building is often an outward and visible sign of a congregation's spiritual condition.

I have pastored the same church for 18 years. That's not exactly a towering pinnacle, but it does provide some interesting views.

We live in the reddest part of Texas, a very red state. So maybe we shouldn't have been surprised when our city stopped recycling glass.

On a crisp winter morning, I took a walk in the sparkling snow covering our small farm. Soon four beehives beckoned.

Much of the Bible is not fit for children—it's a book to ease little ones into, not drop them in cold. So what's the best way to go about this?

If Christian liturgy works on the imagination, so do disordered secular liturgies. Social media—despite its good uses—might be one example.

Sustainable Lenten disciplines anticipate an Easter in which they will continue. But surely Easter hope is for something more.

An interdisciplinary group of scholars met recently to discuss religion in light of evolutionary biology.

It's hard for me to watch as places become a blur for my elderly parents. It's as if each home they've had has merged into one great longing.