Our religious tradition (like many others) often uses light and darkness to represent the presence and absence of God.

On Christ the King Sunday, let’s not make Jesus take the crown he never wanted.

Isaiah’s hopey changey stuff is perfectly possible.

The prophet Haggai was wrong. Also right.

Some answers to this bothersome question.

The practice of silent, interior prayer has a long history.

What might it mean for scripture to be “God-breathed”?

Pelagius was a heretic. He made some good points.

God is with us—but God is not on our “side”.

A psalmist’s implicit yet incisive criticism of the king.