While not every dream is a direct command from God, many serve as a mirror for our souls.

If we stop viewing the season as a territory to be defended, we can start seeing it as a reality to be inhabited.

I often think about the idea of a moral compass. We talk about it as if it is easy to follow when the path is clear and the sun is out. But the real test of our values happens when we are struggling.

Just some thoughts when things don’t feel right.

A Christmas Carol is a Gospel story unto itself with lessons that go beneath its most obvious lessons. But like the theology of our actual Scripture, there are subversive messages that we need to get into to truly understand why we even have this text.

I believe it is time for those of us who hold firm to the Gospel to stop treating the non-believer as an enemy in a spiritual war. That rhetoric is not just unproductive it actively hinders our shared human mission.

When you first start playing Santa, you think it’s about the costume, the booming "Ho Ho Ho," and the perfect fake beard. You learn very quickly that it’s about something far deeper.

Today, the experience of hearing "The Dream Isaiah Saw" performed by the choir of the Lutheran Church of Honolulu—one of my hometown churches—under the direction of Dr. Barry Wenger held a unique gravity.