The three questions God asks Adam and Eve lay bare the threefold nature of their wrongdoing.

We are called to place ourselves intentionally within the physical and temporal structures in which God may speak to us.

Buoyed by that love and mercy, we find wholeness — peace — through acts of kindness, healing and justice.

All of us occasionally have “last straw” moments in our lives, when we feel we simply cannot bear the weight of one more demand.

The person who fears the Lord will follow his or her conscience.

God calls us to him, urging us to make the twisting and laborious ascent to where he dwells in wisdom, holiness and love.