“Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.” - Psalm 23:4 I grew up in a big city. It was a city of 15 million people at the time in the 1990’s and that period in my city was called the Wicked 90s. I lived in Moscow, Russia immediately following the collapse of the Soviet Union. The collapse left the city in utter chaos. The mafia essentially ran the city. We took comfort in the fact that the mafia were...

This second Sunday of Christmas the lectionary deviates from a passage from Isaiah for the Old Testament Reading and focuses on a passage...

The book of Proverbs often can be taken wildly out of context. A pastor once quoted Proverbs 22:6: “Train children in the right way, and...