Shalom bayit,
Chesed
The overarching narrative of the Bible is that of humanity searching for home.
To transform home is to transform the world.
The moment that we think we know, we’ve lost our perspective on wisdom.
I’m waiting now, but I will be ready. We are mutual participants, you and I, intertwined.
While contemporary Christians tend to equate morality with sexual ethics, our ancestors defined morality as welcoming the stranger.
What we need is here. —Wendell Berry
Grace—gifts given without being earned and with no expectation of return—
There is no one experience of gratitude; rather, it is a complex and episodic thing, and one that is deeply personal.
Where do you live?' is ultimately a sacred question.
Awe is the gateway to compassion. It is a deep awareness that we are creators, creators who work with the Creator, in an ongoing project of crafting a world. If we do not like the world or are afraid...
The language of mysticism and spiritual experience cuts a wide swath through the world’s religious traditions, and it presents an alternative theology, that of connection and intimacy. In Christian tr...
Theologians pitted devotion and morality against belief, defining faith no longer as a way of life but rather as intellectual assent to certain creeds or confessions; their books were filled with quar...
Gratitude is not about stuff. Gratitude is the emotional response to the surprise of our very existence, to sensing that inner light and realizing the astonishing sacred, social, and scientific events...
When I get a little money I buy books, he confessed to a friend. If any is left, I buy food and clothes.13
At the same moment when massive global institutions seem to rule the world, there is an equally strong countermovement among regular people to claim personal agency in our own lives. We grow food in b...
The Samaritans and the Jews were enemies, two tribes caught in an ancient argument about birthright and ethnicity who lived in segregated neighborhoods. By Jesus’s time they were forbidden to have con...
Unlike in our society, where we hide it, death surrounded medieval people. They had few hospitals, and so churches, poorhouses, and homes handled the dying and dead. Death was not a distant prospect a...
Hospitality is the practice that keeps the church from becoming a club, a members-only society.
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