Among those who study consciousness and evolutionary biology, there’s a question so basic and so unsolvable that it's simply called “the hard problem.”1 The hard problem is, in basic terms, how did the mind/soul/consciousness come to exist? When did creation as we...

One of my early church jobs was as a youth pastor at a church that had a youth ministry that deeply siloed from the rest of the congregation. We operated in our own building, with our own volunteers and staff, largely disconnected from the larger congregation. Our...

In 2019, my husband and I took a trip to Sedona, Arizona. We would spend our mornings hiking in the red rocks and then, in the afternoon, check out one of the wineries in Verde Valley. Our first afternoon, we wound up at a winery called “Javelina Leap.” The logo was a...