Repentance, Restitution, Repair, and Christian Hope. Suppose I steal one hundred dollars from you. Years later, having come to recognize the wrong, ...

Who is the most micromanaging, controlling boss you've ever worked with?

“Love your neighbor” is one of God’s primary commands. What if we extended that love to our neighbors in Creation, including the land, waters, trees, animals, and human kin? Love your neighbor ...

The bag goes out at ten past six, before the light does. It is heavy at the bottom and cold where the milk leaked. The walk to the bin is eleven steps down a driveway nobody has swept since April, the ...

We recently celebrated Pride here in the “Friendly City” of Harrisonburg, Virginia. Our congregation joined with others for the second annual ecumenical worship service the evening before Pride. This ...

A century-old debate over shepherding in the Land of Israel takes on new meaning as modern farms combine agriculture, ...

The 1969 Roman Calendar reform recovered Jan. 1 as the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God. This is among the oldest feasts associated with the Octave Day of Christmas and reaffirms a basic truth that ...

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Anyone who has so much as seen the outside of a Bible knows for a fact that not only has God spoken out against animal rights and veganism, he holds the concepts in disdain. It’s certainly true that ...

On Yom Kippur, it is customary to finish dinner before sunset on Sunday and then go without food until Yom Kippur ends at sunset on Monday. However, the Bible does not explicitly say "fast." What it ...