This begs the question that transcends automobiles: What conditions dictate your belief? Is your belief in God conditional? We all are answering this question every day by how we live our lives because our beliefs dictate everything – who and what we believe in and why we believe.

Jesus made a way for us to have eternal life with God, and he brought vibrant and beautiful life to people in their day-to-day lives.

It occurred to me in the midst of my reflections that we all construct God in the image we need him to take on to justify things we want to continue to do, believe and participate in. These might not be practices like the wretchedness of slavery, but they are wretched practices nonetheless in the eyes of our creator.

A centered-set theology focuses on Jesus being the object of pursuit, study and attention in developing doctrines in the context of a relationship with Jesus and fellow Christians.

Does a church have to choose if it must focus on evangelism or justice in its community? Adam Gustine answers this question in his new book, ‘Becoming a Just Church.’

Our church and community were shaken last week with the random and senseless attack on two daycare parents in front of our church on Canal Street in New Orleans. We who live in New Orleans are used to crime around the city. But what really shakes us up is that this...