KEITH LONG

For a passage about God’s ultimate test, here’s a test question of my own: The popular quote, "We must hold the Bible in one hand and the...

If there was any Gnostic text that really should have been included in the New Testament canon, it was the Gospel of Thomas. After all,...

One of my favorite types of stories is a suspenseful mystery thriller—one with smart and courageous heroes and wise but reckless...

Today I get the honor of wrapping up our sermon series “Eve Isn’t Evil” – a month’s worth of messages dedicated to seeking out and...

Next year will mark the 250 th  anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence by the nation’s founding fathers John Adams...

While Jesus spent almost all of his time in the backcountry, the hamlets, the villages, the dirt roads, tiny little mountain and lake...

“And he died for all, therefore all have died…And he died for all so that those who live might live no longer for themselves but for the...

Introduction A career that spanned four decades, this Major League player had 2,715 hits in his career, three times he hit over .300,...

What do you do when you find a mess?   Do you jump in and clean it up and ask questions later, or do you break out the forensics kit and...

In his groundbreaking book, The Sense of Being Stared At and Other Aspects of the Extended Mind , Biologist and author Rupert Sheldrake,...

Prince and the Revolution. Queen. The Beatles. AC/DC. There’s just a certain kind of music that whenever I hear it, it fills me with awe...

How many of you in this room grew up Lutheran? As for the rest of you, where are you coming from?   Lutheran or not, every Christian...

In today’s world, just about any person can track down proof that they were in fact, born. For centuries, births and deaths were...

Critics of Christianity often claim that Jesus was a figment of the imagination, a man-made invention by the religious who sought to...

I recently woke up at three in the morning and couldn’t fall back to sleep. This is a relatively usual occurrence, but normally it is...

In the 11 years as an ordained minister of Word and Sacrament in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, I have dutifully upheld the...

Have you ever noticed that there are some very plausible dualities at play in our lives? Take for example what occurs on the radio...

The other day I was peeling the “Chiquita” sticker off my banana, and thought to myself: Is there any other banana distributor other than...