Disagreeing Agreeably

Disagreeing Agreeably

To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here.Yes, Presbyterians (who occasionally refer to themselves as God’s Frozen Chosen) actually do show emotion from time to time.In his book Jesus Outside the Lines, Scott Sauls recalls the time when theologian...

Speak Up

To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. Bob Ebeling was tormented by guilt for 30 years. Ebeling was an engineer for Morton Thiokol, the contractor that built the solid rocket boosters for NASA’s space shuttles. On the night of January 27, 1986, Ebeling...
Texts and Contexts

Texts and Contexts

To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. Many years ago, when one of our kids came into the world, we received a framed verse of Scripture to hang in the baby’s room. It read, “The Lord looks down from heaven on the children…”  (Psalm...
Impossible

Impossible

To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. “Impossible” is a relative term. Sometimes, things we identify as impossible turn out to be quite possible after all.  Over the past 27 years, Tom Cruise’s cinematic hero Ethan Hunt has...
Lost and Found

Lost and Found

To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here.It’s not easy being a lost sheep.In one of his most famous stories (Luke 15:4-7), Jesus helps us imagine what it might be like to be a shepherd.“Suppose one of you has 100 sheep and loses one of them. ...