Editor's note: This meditation is the first of a five-part summer series on the peace writings in the psalms. "A king is not saved by a mighty army, nor a warrior delivered by great strength. Useless ...

A few years ago, our church installed a new water cooler—not the kind with the clear jug on top but the kind that we used back in grade school. It's a rectangular prism that rises straight from the ...

As the Season of Lent rushes toward inevitability, scripture calls us to play the old game of Truth or Consequences—no, not the game show from the 1960s, but the old-time religion game of suffering ...