The Graduate Record Examination includes an "issue essay" portion. The test-taker is presented with a short quotation to which they must...

There are resonances that surge through my body and my home. I cannot help but ring with them. I am rapt by their call, compelled to join...

As for you, always be sober, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, carry out your ministry fully. As for me, I am already being...

I'm sitting in the sanctuary at my church on a Thursday afternoon. I'm listening to our organist practice this Sunday's prelude. And I...

There is a ship. Perhaps made of sturdy wood or smooth metal. Perhaps pushed by swelling sails or propelled by a gently purring engine....

It can be interesting to note the ways in which we push and pull on ourselves, and to experience in real time how our brains and hearts...

It was shown to me there was a great river. It surged forth across a verdant landscape. Deep and powerful, it cut through the soft ground...

“Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding. Who determined its measurements—surely you...

Cows. Their lower jaws rotate in a slow grind, crushing the sweet green grass. Their soft eyes remain unbothered as they observe the...

At 26, I walked through the doors of the middle school I worked at and was met by the scrutinizing look of one of my coworkers. She...

There comes a time in each person’s life when they reach a crossroads. Rather, there are many overlapping, intersecting, superseding...

Christians and non-Christians alike are familiar with the story. Jesus tells his disciples to go into Jerusalem on the first day of...

Cloth. As the dark goliaths approach from above, the lifeless rag beats meekly against its support. It knows in the roil it will be...

Barbara Brown Taylor is a former Episcopal priest and seminary professor. These days, she writes books and mostly functions as an...

At five feet and three inches tall, when looking out at the Gulf of Mexico, the horizon appears 2.8 miles away. A simple equation or a...

“...I saw in my vision by night the four winds of heaven stirring up the great sea” (Daniel 7:2) My toes grip the sand. Shells and...

Lights, hypnotic in the grey woods, show me briefly what I’m missing in the fading day. And in what feels like the evening's 27th hour,...

“It is not simply to be taken for granted that the Christian has the privilege of living among other Christians. Jesus Christ lived in...

When I was in sixth grade, a group of kids from my school spent a couple nights in Everglades National Park. As Floridians, time spent in...

I’m killing time between work and the Maundy Thursday service I will be participating in at church. I’m thinking about the betrayal of...