If you haven’t already, you’re almost certain to encounter someone in your personal life who is going through a season in which her* faith is shifting, something that has been labeled as “faith deconstruction.” For Christians, especially evangelicals, who are not themselves experiencing a period of deconstruction, discovering that a friend or family member–someone who…
“But ask the animals and they will teach you, or the birds in the sky and they will tell you; or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish in the sea inform you. Which of all of these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done…
That night, Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven sons and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. After he had sent them across the stream, he sent over all his possessions. So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak. When the man…
What is the best gift you’ve ever received? Personally, I am surrounded by thoughtful and creative gift-givers. Receiving gifts is one of my love languages and one that I used to try to repress. I wrongly associated my delight in receiving gifts as self-focused instead of acknowledging that God had wired me to love getting…