A Quiet Place

Now Where Did I Put Him? “Now where did I put that?” It’s a question I ask more often than I’d like to admit. But while reading Luke 2, that ordinary little phrase opened the door to something much bigger. After three days, Mary and Joseph found Jesus in the temple. Years later, after another three days, the women came looking for Him in a tomb—and He wasn’t there. That pattern runs throughout the Gospels. We put Jesus with scholars, and He welcomes children. We put Him among Jews, and He sit...

On August 27, 1883, Krakatoa erupted with a force heard nearly 3,000 miles away, sending deadly tsunamis across the Sunda Strait and changing skies around the world. Centuries earlier, another kind of darkness surrounded Monica of Hippo as she prayed year after year for her wandering son, Augustine. Today’s Moments Almanac brings together a volcano that shook the world and a mother whose persistent prayers helped shape one of Christianity’s greatest theologians. It’s a story for anyone enduring

On August 26, 1832, Adam Clarke died during a cholera epidemic near London. But his story began with a boy in Ireland whom others considered slow, dull, and unlikely to amount to much academically. They were spectacularly wrong. Clarke became one of the great Methodist preachers and biblical scholars of his generation, mastering ancient languages and spending years producing his monumental commentary on Scripture. The boy who struggled with words devoted his life to helping others understand t

Creed is an original song inspired by the Nicene Creed, the historic confession of Christian faith first formulated at the Council of Nicaea in A.D. 325 and carried by generations of believers ever since. The song follows the great movement of the Creed: faith in God the Father, Maker of heaven and earth; Jesus Christ, the eternal Son who became flesh for our salvation, was crucified, rose again, ascended, and will return; the Holy Spirit, Lord and Giver of Life; the Church; the resurrection of

Life rarely arrives neatly arranged. It comes as beauty and brokenness, mourning and dancing, abundance and emptiness, sudden moments and long advents. Yet through it all, the Shepherd leads us and prepares a table in the middle of today. The meal is sure. The menu is unknown. A Scattered Feast is a spoken-word reflection on Psalm 23, dependence, providence, and learning to receive each day as it comes—trusting that even when we don't know what tomorrow holds, we know the One who prepares the

On August 25, 325, bishops gathered at Nicaea carrying more than theological arguments—some carried the scars of persecution. At the heart of their debate was a question that would shape Christianity for centuries: Who is Jesus Christ? In this episode of Moments Almanac, we explore the story behind the Council of Nicaea, the controversy over Arius, the crucial word homoousios—“of one substance”—and the creed that declared Jesus to be “God of God, Light of Light, begotten, not made.” We’ll also h