Call it the “Christmas cloud”—that unwelcome shadow suspended over many in December. For the Christian, it’s hard to admit.

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I live in that dark land. I am both a creation and a creator of it. Yet if I admit that the darkness dwells within me, I am ...

A friend’s request for a rent check called my dual loyalties into question. Both parties are enmeshed in an ongoing identity ...

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Advent reminds us that no matter how dark we might sense the world to be, we are known and seen by the God who so wonderfully ...

It’s audacious, really, to celebrate Christmas, to sing “Joy to the World” in the midst of war. We can, though, for we know ...

I was a memory-verse A-lister, Bible trivia ace pastor’s kid. A crisis of faith brought me to read Scripture anew.

Within me, the voice that spoke, initially in a whisper but with gradually intensifying volume, uttered these four words: ...

E.M. Welcher is the pastor of Grace Baptist Church in Vermillion, South Dakota. He is the author of Advent: A Thread in the ...

The eerie thing was, as I gazed upward at the brilliant spectacle, the immediate darkness in which I stood was just as ...

Without acknowledging our grief, we won’t experience the deep comfort of releasing our sorrows to the suffering Savior ...