How to Actively Read:

Last week we began exploring the difference between passive reading and active reading, and how this relates to our own particular Bible reading style.

It is natural to sit back and just listen to a sermon, including Scripture being read. But is this active engagement? When I teach college students how to engage with biblica...

In our own minds is "she" inherently less than "he"?

In many religious traditions, language used to refer to God is exclusively male. God is a he or a him. God is a father. Yet the God of the Bible transcends gender and is also portrayed in feminine language and imagery. Prominent among feminine images and metaphors for God is mother. 

Feminine I...

Habit Formation and Unmet Expectations

There are moments in life when we get a glimpse of how our daily habits reap some benefit. A degree earned, a skill mastered, a mindset broadened. It is the little things we repeat daily that add up to exponential growth in the long-term. These moments don’t occur frequently, but they do offer some validation...

Sometimes children help us see anew: wonder in the small things, impartial delight in others, or the beautiful audacity to ask for what we need and receive it wholeheartedly.  

Sitting 30,000 feet in the air, with my 10-month old daughter on my lap, I noticed all of these things. But I wasn’t prepared for what else she would help me to see anew be...