Living with Jesus' story (Philippians 3:20-21) Why do we live here? It was only when I was in my late 20s—and encountering undocumented immigrants coming

Our work can be our mission Twila gave herself completely to her vocation as a teacher. She loved her work, her students and the deep-rooted

The Amish makeover of Christian fiction My grandfather left his Amish home in Holmes County, Ohio, to follow the wheat harvest and never went back.

I went to the desert to pray. It was the bleak midwinter of January. The brothers of the Benedictine Monastery in Northern New Mexico were welcoming and warm as always. But the landscape was naked …

Laurie Neumann Nafziger is president and CEO for Oaklawn Psychiatric Center in Goshen, Ind., a community mental health center and psychiatric hospital that serves Indiana’s

A reflection on Psalm 24:1 In elementary school, our teachers told us to “reach for the stars!” We got on our tippy toes and stretched

A reflection on 1 Samuel 1-2 Perhaps you are like Hannah in the story at the beginning of 1 Samuel: someone living in despair, so

Consistent themes and big trajectories of God’s Word guide us. It is not always easy for modern readers to understand what a biblical text meant

The difference it makes in how we approach the Bible As a counterpoint to papal authority, Martin Luther appealed to “sola scriptura” or “Scripture alone”