It’s been a polarizing and discouraging season for people of faith - no matter how you voted!  However the next weeks play out, its...

It bothers me when people tell me that pastors need to “stay out of politics”, especially when that voice comes consistently from people...

PRINCIPLES OF FAITH AND KNOWING: It’s quite the challenging time when part of the country wants to address systemic racism and another...

These times call for discernment, even more than most times, because competing truth-claims are loud, and the place you land with your...

As fires torch California and Los Angeles, and fire specialists speak of the fire season having grown two months longer than it was...

Two contrasting statements from Jesus and a Roman Governor reveal both the hope and challenge of the question which frames this blog...

But in the seventh year you must let it lie fallow and leave it alone so that the poor of your people may eat, and what they leave any...

I'm privileged to introduce an outstanding guest author, Kristi Dahlstrom, as she writes about embracing season changes in life. You can...

I watch the news and hear reasonable and well-educated people fearing that the possibility of a constitutional crisis in the upcoming...

You can feel everything heating up, can’t you? The election, geopolitical, and race conversations are heating up, and the likelihood is,...

What is the source of the failure? It has many names — individualism, cultural libertarianism, atomism, selfishness, lack of social...

I grew up in the land of individualism. I learned early on that the main point of the Christian life was to “accept Jesus Christ as my...

note to the reader: at the very time of this writing and publication, police cars are on fire in downtown Seattle - and there's a...

Real and true faith in Christ is profoundly practical.  It will, indeed must, ultimately present itself in your body, which is a way of...

Until we collectively own the racism that is our collective national history, we won’t move into the freedom and transformation awaiting us.

What Wholeness of Body Means: Christ followers have a long held tortured relationship with the body. In the church's earliest centuries,...

Gandhi said, “I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike Christ. Now, more than ever, time to change!

Just over a year ago I decided I wanted to do a February fun run in Seattle because they'd be tearing a road down with a stunning view,...

I would have despaired unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living - Psalm 27:13 Let...

Holy Week is an opportunity, because we’re not seeing Jesus through a, “look what he's done for me" lens. This year, the cross is ours too!