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  • Love Is Never Wrong

    If you want to be right, love first and always. The one command that Jesus gave to summarize all his teaching was, “Love one another.” He reiterated this command several times in the last hours before his crucifixion. He knew he was about to abandon his disciples and that they would experience the disillusionment of…

  • The Wrath of God

    My earliest memories of wrath are of my mom. She was a great mom, but she wouldn’t put up with nonsense or misbehavior. When I grew up, discipline meant spanking, so my mom would sometimes spank me if I had done something to seriously displease her. My earliest crime, maybe at the age of three,…

  • Drawn to the Light

    Darkness. It was all around me, wherever I looked. I could see no difference whether my eyes were open or closed. I was walking aimlessly, but for a long while the darkness was unrelieved except by the transient bursts of photopsia that told me my visual cortex was still functioning. Finally, I saw a faint…

  • Little Faith

    We were all tired. He told us to cross the lake. He would catch up with us later. The wind was against us, so we took it in turns rowing. It was getting on toward dawn when one of the guys saw what looked like a man crossing the lake—without a boat. We were all…

  • Bend at the Knees

    Originally written in 2008, this piece by Belinda Burkitt still resonates in a time of pandemics and renewed protests over racial violence. Chip Burkitt, editor. “Bend at the knees!” Something I can remember calling out to my young children as we ventured across an icy patch on a winter walk in Minnesota. My husband and…

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