This reflection is an entry from A Theology of Desire. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel (which means, God with us). (Matthew 1:23 ESV) Many Christians have a deistic understanding of God, in which the Creator breathed the universe into being and then stepped away to watch what would happen. In this view, God is separate from us and often disapproving. While most Christians believe in the power of prayer—requiring that God

This post is an entry from my Pro-life, Pro-Choice, Pro-Love devotional, on seeking a third way for viewing abortion. The book should be available in September, 2109 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we