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“The Old Testament God is punitive and judgmental. The New Testament God is merciful and loving.” A couple of years, megachurch pastor Andy…

I admit it. My relatively comfortable life in America gave me a distorted lens through which I used to read the Beatitudes, the opening…

Just because you’re standing in a kitchen doesn’t make you a toaster. Or a Pop-Tart. When I hear people tell me that their…

Last weekend, New York Times reporter Ruth Graham held up a mirror to the celebrity culture that formed around former pastor Carl Lentz…

I was gossiping with a friend, but if I called it “processing” and “debriefing”, then it couldn’t be considered gossip, right? It takes…

Shalom, friend! During the Passover Seder, there is a section of the service called the Four Questions that launches the recounting of the…