Please note: It will be very helpful to read the two articles on Colors Of Faith for context before reading the articles written later.  Thank you. Enjoy!

The Call to Spiritual Maturity

1 Corinthians 13: 11-12 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child.  When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. The apostle Paul understood the developmental process of growing mentally, emotionally, and...

The Way Forward is Up

We are daily reminded of the complex, distressing, and frightening challenges we face on both local and global scales.  Here we are again, this time in Minnesota, dealing with a horrific act of senseless violence against children.  Some scholars are...

Wrestling With Crises, Shame and Faith

I have been struggling to find words to express the dark thoughts and feelings many of us who are Christians are confronting these days.  A recent article in the Sunday edition of The Minnesota Star Tribune about Vance Boelter and his religious beliefs and...