This is the first in a 4-part series reflecting on the Scripture readings from my wedding. You can also read Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4....

I remember my first Lent and just how long 40 days seemed to be. Each day dragged on. Fasting from social media freed my schedule from...

Have you ever heard the voice of God? I don’t think I have, at least not in the way people usually understand it. I’ve heard his voice in...

In our contemporary discourse, the subject of gender looms large, especially in discussing gender inequality, abuse, and sexuality....

The biblical story begins with God’s act of creation. At the start, God creates humanity in His image: “So God created mankind in his...

In the Book of Jubilees, the Angel of the Presence begins dictating the heavenly tablets at the creation story, stating that at the...

In the Genesis creation story, God says, "Let us make humankindin our image (בְּצַלְמֵ֖נוּ), according to our likeness; and let them have...

The Pentateuch on the whole, and Genesis, in particular, opens the stories of individual believers to the scope of God’s universal...

When children bring home their science homework, we see phrases in their textbooks such as, “millions of years ago” and billions of years...

In Origins: Christian Perspectives on Creation, Evolution, and Intelligent Design, Deborah B. Haarsma and Loren D. Haarsma make a...

For my first experience with contemplative exegesis, I decided to use one of my favorite passages, Genesis 32:22-32, the story of Jacob’s...