Some things are so vast that the human mind struggles to comprehend them. This month's Tavern Talk looked at a few examples...the deepest part of the ocean is nearly seven miles deep...the moon is almost 240,000 miles away...more than a million Earths could fit inside the sun...our galaxy contains hundreds of billions of stars, and beyond it are billions of galaxies more. Every time scientists learn something new about the universe, they discover that it is even larger than they imagined....

This month, we had the chance to revisit one of the most familiar passages in all of Scripture - Psalm 23 - and to try to hear it again as if for the first time. Most of us know this psalm well. Many have it memorized. We’ve heard it at funerals. We associate it with quiet, reflective moments at the end of life. But Psalm 23 was not written for the dead. It was written for the living. For people walking through uncertainty, fear, pressure, and, at times, real darkness. This summer, the...

Easter is not the story of people who believed too easily. It's the story of people who didn’t believe at all. Our Easter Tavern Talk walked us through the surprising, even jarring reality at the heart of the resurrection story: nobody was expecting it. Not the disciples. Not the women. Not the religious leaders. Not Rome. If anything, every group involved was operating with the same basic assumption: death means the end. And then, something happened. The talk began at the cross, where the...