Spiritual Life Archives

It’s painful to hear that charges of racism are tampering the response to Hurricane Katrina – and even more painful to consider the issue may lurk...

"We are prisoners in a land of exile" -- these are strong words, but anyone who has ever known loneliness in life will relate. And who hasn't felt...

Want to know how to make a friend out of an enemy? Have a common rival. In the days of Jesus, Pilate and Herod (which means “son of a hero”) were...

Your church is a 'good' church. The music is tolerable, the people are fine, the sermon is okay. But the whole experience slips over your soul like...

The devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina once again raises questions about the goodness and power of God. These are not easy questions, and not...

The Presidential Prayer Team - one of the good things to come out of 9/11 - just relaunched its website in honor of the anniversary, and will be...

The virtual community of Christians who maintain active web logs, or “blogs” have built up a ready-made audience of followers. In the wake of...

An event as large and catastrophic as the hurricane which struck the Gulf Coast of the United States last week can only be understood in the...

Sure, you can pray for your community while just sitting at home. But if you prayerwalk - pray while actually walking through your community - your...

Traumatic world events and nagging questions of belief sometimes cause Christians to be troubled in spirit and to question their assurance of...

The inward work of God’s grace in our lives…the forgiveness of our sins and the salvation that we receive from the hand of the Lord Jesus...

With manifest scorn, an NPR News Analyst linked the devastation of Hurricane Katrina with the concept of intelligent design: “[Bush] might well...

As a child I had no idea what the punishment of Roman scourging was about. I couldn’t begin to imagine the agonies and tortures of Roman...

Natural evil comes without a moral agent. A hurricane ravages, a tower falls, an earthquake shakes, a tornado destroys, a spider bites, a disease...