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If the traditional American approach to dieting and exercise doesn’t help us tame our flesh, what will?

It’s not about us. And we think too little of ourselves.

We all long to be awed and to believe in something beyond ourselves.

This Christmas, let’s step back and consider what we are inviting the world to observe.

It’s not a religious event, per se, but it buoys my spirit to love and be loved, to place myself within a tradition of ever-present love.

If we know we are called to care for people—to get in the trenches with them—why is it so easy to convince ourselves not to?

It’s one thing to be stuck in a trench, but it’s exhausting to expect perfection of your fellow soldier, slogging in the same mud as you.

The life of the peacemaker is full of grace and work, urgency and patience, purpose and hope. May it be so for us.

When people sell everything and seek first the Kingdom, the result is a glorious, chaotic mess of lives, all wrapped up together.

Technology promises to give us our own personal utopia. But is that better than God’s shalom?

What we are looking for on our wedding day, and what can seem elusive in marriage, is a sense of being complete and full.

Dystopian stories must be told because when humanity tries to create Eden, Death follows.

What need within us is served by watching our society crumble beneath our protagonists’ feet, if not one that is cruel, even sadistic, in nature?

All this focus on personal greatness has its drawbacks.

If utopia is to be found by separating the good from the bad, we need someone with an objective view to do the sorting.

We need these very human stories about what it means to long for hope in a dark world.