There is a star so far away that, under ordinary circumstances, we should never have been able to see it. Its name is Earendel. The light reaching...
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Monsters of the Id
There is an old science fiction movie called Forbidden Planet. It tells the story of an advanced civilization whose brilliance became its undoing....
Hidden in Plain Sight
Perhaps the greatest discoveries of our lives are not the things we find, but the things we finally recognize. There is a curious pattern woven...
Staying in the Middle of What You Don’t Yet Understand
A Good Friday Reflection There is a moment in the final hours before the cross that I find myself returning to more often now than I used to. Jesus...
Trusting the True Author with Our Dog-Eared Pages
I’ve turned a lot of pages in my life—some with hope, some with dread, and some with a cup of coffee going cold beside me while I tried to decide if...
A Christmas Reflection
Christmas is around the corner, and I am sure, like all of you, when I sit back and look at the houses lit in the neighborhood and the decorations...
Manna Still Falls Where Hearts Are Open
“Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you…’”— Exodus 16:4 ESV I sat this morning with a cup of chai and a quiet...
When the Heart Still Speaks
They say the heart has a mind of its own—but what if it also has a voice the brain can’t silence? Science calls it neurocardiology—forty thousand...
When Love Feels Lost: Holding On When God Seems Absent
There is a silence that feels like loss. There’s a grief so sharp it takes your breath away, not like you feel when someone has died, but when it...