Texts: Luke 2:8-10; Matthew 2:9-12 We were a NBC Nightly News family. Every weeknight after an always early dinner, we would sit in...

Text: Jeremiah 1:4-10 I spent my high school years in the land of pollsters who tell leaders which way public sentiment is blowing. They...

Text: Hebrews 11:1, 13-16 Some years ago, on a beautiful August day at the national conference center in Chautauqua, New York, I listened...

Hebrews 11:1-3, 29-33 I was nine years old and living in racially segregated Newport News. My blue-collar, Southern family did not have...

Texts: Isaiah 53:1-3; I Corinthians 13:12 In one of the most horrific encounters of the Second World War, the fate of the German Sixth...

Texts: Haggai 1:1-8; Galatians 5:1 This is the month for patriotic pundits to opine about freedom. Flags fly, fireworks explode, and this...

Text: Mark 5:21-43 “He took her by the hand and said to her, . . . ‘Little girl, get up!’ And immediately the little girl got up and...

Text: Genesis 21:1-21 I saw Hagar last week. She was foraging through a church dumpster. She was dodging ICE agents at the airport. She...