Relationships are not erased by eternity. To the contrary, resurrected life redeems, restores and renews, our earthly relationships.

If God does not exist, we waste our time, confessing our sins. If God does exist, our understanding of evil and our role in it is so small, so limited as to be worthy of contempt. But that’s not who God is.

Give yourself to the Lord, embrace your vocation. Joy will creep up and tap you on the shoulder.

Barbara E. Reid on using Scripture to further gender equality

Phil Klay won the National Book Award for fiction in 2014 for his collection of short stories, Redeployment. Writing in The New York Times, Dexter Filkins called it “the best thing written so far on what the war did to people’s souls.” A veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps, Mr. Klay s