I write to you while looking out onto a lake in southern Indiana, sitting in a cabin where my family vacations every summer. While I’m not a big fan of summer, it’s one of the few times all year the ...

We, like Joseph, are invited to empty ourselves, choosing to abandon anything that can get in the way of our union with God or our collaboration with God's design for creation.

We do not believe that the Bible explicitly endorses capitalism or any other economic system. Yet the Bible has much to say about economic principles, and as Christians, we should embrace its wisdom ...

Religious types emphasize that God is the absolute creator of heavens above and earth below, and everything in between; the existence of universe is not just an accident. God paved the way for ...

“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” As a kid, I would read these first words in my children’s Bible over and over again—not because I found them particularly interesting, but ...

In this Oct. 2, 2018 file photo, Bronx Zoo elephant "Happy" strolls inside the zoo's Asia Habitat in New York. An appellate court on Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020, upheld a lower court’s ruling dismissing a ...

On Rosh HaShanah we began counting the 5,775th year since the creation of the world. This calculation is predicated upon the primordial first week of creation consisting of seven 24-hour days during ...

I love the wonder of each of the seasons, spring, summer, fall and winter. Personally, I love spring and summer the best with longer daylight and warmer temperatures. I love being outside enjoying God ...

At the start of this third millennium, a new awareness of the magnificence and uniqueness of Earth as one intertwined community of life is growing among people everywhere. The image of our planet seen ...