The second half of our psalm takes a sharp turn from praising God with a new song and dancing to executing vengeance, punishment, and judgment. Verse 6 tells us to have...

The psalmist calls the Israelites to learn a new song. They are very familiar with the songs of sorrow and suffering. But the psalmist reminds them that as “children of Zion”...

A professor of mine liked to tell the story of his first blind date. He said as they left the house the mother said to her daughter, “Now remember who you...

We live in an intergenerational household that includes a toddler. From the adults’ example, she learns what behaviors our family considers important, whether in showing love through hugs, respectful conversation, and...

For most of my adult life, I have belonged to a non-geographic covenant community, Sisbros, in which we live by a series of practices that govern our spiritual, economic, and political...

What does love look like? Television commercials and magazines show starry-eyed love between romantic partners; sweet, cuddly love between parents and children; and “I’ve got your back” love between friends. If...

My oncologist. I never expected to use these words in daily speech, along with breast cancer and mastectomy. After a routine mammogram recently set my life spinning, I found my language...

In the burning-bush encounter with Moses, God says, “I have observed the misery of my people who are in Egypt; I have heard their cry on account of their taskmasters. Indeed,...

Moses’ ordinary life as a shepherd is interrupted and upended when he spies “a flame of fire out of a bush” that “was blazing, yet it was not consumed.” As most...

My childhood family vacations alternated between driving 1,600 miles east to visit my paternal grandmother one summer, then 1,200 miles north to see my maternal grandmother the following summer. I loved...