We hate ambiguity. We really hate it. Ambiguity is messy, frightening even. We like certainty. Black and white. It’s part of the reason America has become so polarized over politics. We want surety, on one side or the other, not questions, not shades of gray. Unfortunately, that’s not always the way the world works. Sometimes life is a paradox. We can both love something and hate it; things can be both good and bad. Often the truth doesn’t lie on one side or the other, but somewhere in the...

“My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” Psalm 22 opens with the most austere words echoed by Jesus in both Matthew and Mark. As he...

Praising the Lord while Anti-Semitic Attacks Abound At the time I write this, I awoke to the news of the stabbing of 5 people at the...