death

Knowing the End of the Story

Welcome, friends, to Holy Humor Sunday. This day is part of a tradition (a very old tradition) of laughing on the Sunday after Easter as…

For the first 20 or so years of my life, I understood salvation as one concrete idea: that Jesus died for my sin on the…

November 2, 2014 1

Today, I served communion to a man with tears in his eyes. His father, though no longer with us, was present on this day. The…

As we sit here this morning and think about feasting with the saints, I’m thinking about eating a honey and butter sandwich with my grandpa,…

February 24, 2014 1

As an introvert, I dont often make small talk with fellow passengers on a flight. Now that you can use a kindle during taxi and…

Today is my thirty-first birthday. My work with Imagine No Malaria has introduced me to the faces and stories of children all across the continent…

We must — at some point along our Lenten journey — be candid about death. Lent begins with the reminder of our mortality, with the…

Are you going up? Are you… climbing the ladder… increasing in stature… measuring success in leaps and bounds? Are you going up? I’m not asking…