Many speak of friends, but we too seldom see friendship as a spiritual pursuit.

Churches reported record attendance on the Sunday after the 9/11 terror attacks. But for many, prayer has again become a routine or forgotten duty. How will we be strong for the next crisis?

Reflections on a simple initiative in a small church that created decades of ministry with multiplied influence.

I was impressed by so much I saw at the fair, but before I had left, the nods to God left me a little concerned.

Like many Americans, I felt helpless as I watched the news this week from Afghanistan. But more than one website has shown me one thing I can do.

We just expect Olympic athletes to perform remarkable moves on the balance beam without falling off. But balance in everyday life is an even bigger challenge.

We may look at the seemingly superhuman feats of Olympic athletes and just move on. Or we might ask if personal improvement is something we could achieve, too.

My own life experience has been a path toward admitting and then deciding how to cope with my powerlessness. So Dean’s advice about the subject resonated with me deeply.

Are you happy? That’s likely not the first question to worry about, because God has promised something better.

When it comes to weeding, I’m afraid my thoughts go faster to the devil than to God. Thoughts from a summertime gardener.

“God Bless America,” made famous by Kate Smith decades ago, really is a prayer, not a national anthem. Let’s pray the prayer this Independence Day.

The wait on earth for heaven seems short for the dying. But all of us are dying. All of us are in the place of in-between. And realizing this is very good.

“I couldn’t decide which sin was worse, and it tied me up in knots.” What a pitiful—and perhaps too typical—condition for the Christian.

The atheist . . . the article about pornography . . . and an insight about coping with the sin in our lives.

When we see even the basic attributes of Christianity lived out among us, we always notice. Love. Serve. Remembering a life that showed us how.

It’s good to remember our national heroes. It’s important to remember that Jesus is so much more than a hero.

Let’s think about more than the fact of change. Let’s allow the pandemic to help us think about the idea of change.

Like you, I enjoy and depend on the digital dimensions of my life. But I don’t think online church can be a permanent substitute for in-person worship.

A list of ideas for demonstrating God’s surprising diversity in the worship we offer back to him.

My experience is that some lessons are learned only through experience! So here are three conclusions my experience prompts me to share.