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Karl Ove Knausgaard forced me to cancel six months of my life in order to fixate on 30 years of his.

Ministry is incarnationally specific. Pastors are called to see their place and people with God's "lover's eye," and to love them for their particularity.

Past efforts at "character education" have operated with a shallow understanding of character. The Expeditionary Learning model goes deeper.

The driver would only take me to Mejicanos once he talked to my contact at St. Francis of Assisi's. The church is neutral territory in a bloody landscape.

When Sloan Meek sings, it's not like any singing you've ever heard. It's more like a moan that roughly captures the melody's dynamic movement.

There has been a broad and dramatic shift toward more abortion restrictions in the United States. This will almost certainly continue.

It's been too long since Christmas, and most folks wish the winter were over. But this lingering not-yet-spring is a precious time.

I went to a meeting with a friend yesterday. Many of the speakers were wry and funny, but their stories were awful.

As I came to the first student and his family, kneeling with outstretched hands, suddenly someone took out a phone and snapped a picture.

The third Selma-to-Montgomery march was a civil rights watershed. It also focused the lives of many who gave it its spiritual hue.

In response to our request for essays on appetite, we received many compelling reflections. Here is a selection.

Isaiah doesn't politely, abstractly compare God to a mother giving birth. The text suggests that God squats and pants and bellows like a moose.

Last year, the U.S. took thousands of "family units" into custody at the southern border. Nearly every woman cites violence as the reason she fled.

"People sometimes come in guarded and defensive. But they want to be understood, and they want to minister well."

Throughout history, people loyal to a higher law have been responsible for much violence. Should we reject appeals to a higher law?

There is too much carbon in the atmosphere. What if one of the most compelling responses is to restore the carbon in the ground beneath our feet?

Craddock let the word out that he would be available at no charge for preaching and teaching. Only non-seminary graduates should attend.

To say "earth to earth" is a good thing, we have to believe it's really going to happen.

Long before I sat in Senate hearing rooms listening to witness testimony, I sat in lecture halls at Yale listening to professors dissect Paul.