Michelle Van Loon

The week between Christmas and New Years is filled with all manner of “Year In Review” lists. Biggest news stories, worst movies, best books, that sort of thing. My own 2009 list is a little more…uh…specific. When I think of…

Click here to read Part 1, here for Part 2 and here for Part 3 of this series. At this time of year, the focus is on the Baby. If you focus on the incarnation long enough, you might also…

Click here to read Part 1 , and here to read Part 2. Jesus began his ministry with a very audacious-sounding statement of purpose torn right from the sacred scrolls before him: He went to Nazareth, where he had been…

Click here to read part one of the series. Jesus and religious insiders The Pharisees’ motto: We do life right! You don’t! Color in the lines. Drive 55 miles per hour. Obey the rules. Be an Eagle Scout. President of…

We focus on a little Baby during this season. That little Baby came to us on a mission of love: “…the Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost.” (Luke 19:10) I’ve had the opportunity to…

We climbed into a cab in Jerusalem early one morning and after asking where we were headed, our driver launched into an impassioned monologue about the wrong-headed thinking of some low-level bureaucrat to send the street cleaners off to work…