Essay by Rev. Matthew Syrdal May 28, 2020 I completely scrapped what I was going to write, when the Muse asked me this morning, What do y...

It is a strange feeling to me - we who have lost nearly all ability to feel as a culture are now asked not to touch. “Stay six feet away!...

- Bryan Smith For over a year now, I have found myself being drawn into the story of Queen Esther of Persia. One day last spring, I woke ...

- Brian Stafford As many of us have heard, the Chinese character for the word “crisis” is made from the characters for danger and for opp...

Could this be the collective Descent we’ve all been waiting for?

By Matt Syrdal Many people today are experiencing a very deep and very real grief. Accessing grief can be like unearthing strata entombed...

The writer of Genesis wrote that "God saw everything that was created, and, behold, it was very good." The Hebrew word "tov" used here for "