Since first grade, my daughter’s best friend has been a boy. They share what Dr. Seuss called “compatible weirdness”—cracking each other up with drawings or...
Our Faith
Essays and reporting on theology and scripture that put our faith in the context of everyday life.
When my wife and I married, we sang Rory Cooney and Gary Daigle’s “Covenant Hymn.” Based on Ruth’s proclamation to her mother-in-law Naomi, that she would...
“When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place.” (Acts of the Apostles 2:1) There was a time, long ago, when everyone I knew was a...
Sometime in the summer of 1829, a young Spanish man, Anthony Claret, was walking along a beach in Barcelona. The 20-year-old cloth merchant was suffering from...
Lay-Lay. That’s what my 4-year-old nephew calls me because he has trouble saying my name the way most people say it — Brandon. When he first started...
Some of us were raised in environments where it was fine to ask questions. Perhaps our parents, teachers, and pastors were happy to entertain our curiosity...
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Kirby Hoberg noticed that her pastor began to give, in her words, “a lot of strange homilies.” These included “homilies that...
My young daughter often asks me at bedtime about my favorite childhood memories. As I share them with her, I have come to realize they often involve other...
Part of me resented when my 68-year-old mom mentioned offhandedly that she was shopping for what she plans to be her final computer. “Laptops tend to last me...
