Dai­ly Reflec­tion
August 19, 2025

My faith is root­ed in the belief that each of us is a beloved child of God, and that there is noth­ing that any of us can do to change that. I grew up in a church com­mu­ni­ty where my faith was encour­aged and doubts were accept­ed, where I could find my friends, and where God was in our midst. While church­es and peo­ple of all denom­i­na­tions are fac­ing new chal­lenges, the same God calls and inspires us to lis­ten and dis­cern togeth­er to fol­low in God’s path. As an edu­ca­tor and ordained min­is­ter in the Pres­by­ter­ian Church (USA), I have served in a vari­ety of school and min­istry set­tings. In my role at Creighton, I have the priv­i­lege to walk along­side and sup­port stu­dents from a vari­ety of Chris­t­ian back­grounds in their per­son­al and com­mu­nal faith devel­op­ment through week­ly wor­ship, social gath­er­ings, and lead­er­ship coaching.

As some­one who loves to read, scrip­ture is full of lit­er­ary gold: the dra­ma, the sto­ries, the jux­ta­po­si­tions, the metaphors, the alle­gories, and the sur­pris­ing pow­er rever­sals. The rich­ness and depth of the writ­ten word inspire us to dig in to the text to learn more about this amaz­ing God, sur­pris­ing Spir­it, and para­dox­i­cal Jesus we encounter with­in it.