I wonder if the ritual of reading to my children is more for me or for them. I know that someday, one closing in all too soon, this ritual will shift, and I won't be granted the access to them that I take for granted now. This is a sobering reminder that the time we get with others is holy, fleeting, and should be meaningful.

Faithful Palestinian Christians too often feel abandoned, or worse, betrayed by Western Christians. They want to be seen by their Christian family, but they feel forgotten.

Each Friday in The Christian Citizen, we publish a Religion News Roundup with summaries of religion news stories and links for those who want to read more.

God knows the intensity of the burdens many of us carry, and extends a hand and meets us where we stand, sit, kneel, or lie down.

The fictional “Downton Abbey” mirrors the real-life tensions of some Baptist trustees dealing with the blessing and burden of a large church property. Do we see our “life’s work” in the brick to be fixed or the life of faith to be lived?