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In 1923, a family in rural Kentucky discovered a deed to forty acres of prime timberland tucked inside the family Bible. The deed was legitimate,...
Rachel Held Evans once wrote that the Bible is not a book about people who got it right — it is a book about God...
In 1881, the great Princeton theologian B.B. Warfield — whose towering intellect defended the absolute inerrancy of Scripture against a generation of skeptics — did...
When Rachel Held Evans wrote about the kingdom of God, she often returned to the image of a table — who gets a seat, who...
When Rachel Held Evans wrote about her journey back to faith, she described finding Jesus not at the end of a theological exam but at...
A small progressive congregation in Portland decided to rethink their annual stewardship campaign. Instead of pledge cards and guilt-laden sermons, they hosted a neighborhood potluck...
When a surgeon operates, every cut serves a purpose. No incision is random, no wound without design. The patient, lying on the table, cannot see...
In the monastery at Gethsemani, Thomas Merton once described how the monks would rise at 3:15 a.m. for Vigils, shuffling through cold corridors in darkness,...
When Jesus said, "If anyone would come after Me, let me deny themselves and take up their cross and follow Me," we need to remember...
A master builder once told his apprentice that the most important tool in his shop was not the hammer or the saw but the plumb...
In the monastery at Gethsemani, Thomas Merton once described how new monks would arrive carrying invisible suitcases — packed with ambitions, identities, and the endless...
A friend of mine volunteers at a community kitchen in downtown Portland where the only rule posted on the wall reads: "Everyone eats." Not "everyone...
There is a moment in centering prayer when every distraction has been released, every thought gently set aside, and what remains is not peace but...
A structural engineer was once called to inspect a building whose walls had begun to crack. The owner insisted the foundation was fine — he...
When James writes, "If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault," he invites us into...
In 1526, William Tyndale published his English New Testament, knowing it could cost him his life. But what strikes the careful reader is not just...
In the practice of centering prayer, there comes a moment Thomas Merton called "the point of nothingness" — that raw, undefended place where every title,...
In 1989, a 6.9-magnitude earthquake struck San Francisco during the World Series. Buildings pancaked, highways collapsed, and the ground itself became unreliable. Yet engineers later...
In the writings of Teresa of Avila, she describes seasons when prayer feels like drawing water from a deep well with a broken bucket —...
In the monasteries of medieval Spain, Teresa of Avila observed something paradoxical about the soul's journey. The deeper one traveled inward through prayer, the more...
In 1998, a young seminary student sat in John MacArthur's expository preaching class at The Master's Seminary, struggling with a passage. He had been assigned...
In 1881, B.B. Warfield arrived at Princeton Seminary carrying a conviction that would anchor his entire career: every word of Scripture is God-breathed, wholly without...
In the monastery at Gethsemani, Thomas Merton once described a moment during centering prayer when every thought finally fell silent — not the silence of...
In the tradition of *lectio divina*, we do not merely read Scripture — we allow Scripture to read us. A monk once described his decades-long...