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Why I Try to Believe

Friday, June 24, 2016

As society and situations become more challenging and complicated, we may have to admit that some of the answers from generations ago no longer satisfy today’s believers.

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70 Sevens

Thursday, April 28, 2016

In my experience, preachers have usually talked about it as simply a big number, something far beyond the level at which any of us would bother to keep count. After all, who would bother counting 490 successive acts of forgiveness?

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Offering Sabbath

Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Sabbath is a spiritual discipline, particularly in a world dominated by screens, writes Nathan Brown. Loosening our grip on phones and devices, even for an hour, begins to break down their grasp on us and to reveal a more human kind of interaction and pace.

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What we do with the Bible

Friday, April 1, 2016

Bible reading is an important spiritual practice, but Nathan Brown wonders if quantity is everything and suggests a better way of measuring the Bible’s effect in our lives.