Before I turn off my bedside light every night I read a few verses from the Psalms, from a bible my grandfather was given before he...

Here's a new article I wrote on preaching science for Biologos. "Preaching science is all about bringing God’s revelation through...

For years I’ve been reading obituaries as parables - especially the long form life summaries that you find in the New York Times or Globe...

Here's a piece I wrote for The Banner on getting serious about what we say we believe about creation as a source of revelation....

Last Sunday at breakfast my wife Fran asked what the plan was. I responded, "First we'll go to church, then I'll go swimming with Eddy,...

Here's a confession I posted over at The Banner.

This week I stepped out of the wilderness. I was at a conference for the STEAM project at Fuller Theological Seminary in Chicago - a...

Buried in the middle of the Old Testament book of 1 Chronicles is a beautiful vocational blessing. It comes from King David as he charges...

For over a year now I have been waiting on what God has next for my life. At first it was excruciatingly stressful. Now there is more...

There are times when you don't have to move to be sent by God. During the reign of King Jeroboam there was a blind prophet named Ahijah...

Here's a link to new interview I did on Ottawa's CHRI. We ended up taking about how God is imaged by a federal government. Go figure.

(For the next 6 months I'm going to be working on a couple of new books... so I figured I'd repost some 'best of' old blog entries...

For months now I've been in a process of stopping. Eight months ago I left my job as a local church pastor. Seven months ago my book was...

This morning I woke up thinking about my son Edward's birth, and how God so powerfully used the event to call me into the ministry. Not...

Here's an interview I did with CBC's Russell Bowers for his Sunday morning Daybreak program on Every Job a Parable. (When I left the...

Here's an interview I did with Dr. Amy Sherman for Made To Flourish. She's a big work and faith thinker and MTF is a big faith and work...

Last night I had another 'lying there before God' moment. It felt like part two to the 'I know you' moment I had a couple of nights ago...

I said these words last night at 2:00 am; "I know you." It felt like God was in the room. My eyes were wet and my voice was trembling. "I...

Sometimes I wonder if the door of vocation will be the one through which the Spirit walks when God decides to wake everyone up to his...

Yesterday was an amazing day. It began with words from a psalm - "I will praise you Lord among the nations" (57:9). They felt more...