In the past week or so I’ve read several stories that illustrate the dangers of Christians becoming too close to political leaders. First, there has been a lot of news…

After our worship service on Easter I went down to Phoenix Children’s Hospital and spent the afternoon with my sister, whose year-old son has a serious form of cancer. Later…

As we walk through Holy Week this year I’m particularly aware of Jesus’ prayer the night before he died: “I ask not only on behalf of these, but also on…

In this week’s Sunday New York Times, Barbara Ehrenreich wrote a piece called “A Rationalist’s Mystical Moment” in which she describes an experience of seeing “the world — the mountains, the…