One of the most effective pastors I know was talking recently about the day she answered God’s call to ministry. It was..
Anybody else out there in churchland struggling with a bit of a Christmas hangover? For me, it’s not quite like those who..
Just a week ago, as I write these words, I joined a great many other Americans to watch two testimonies on television..
The elderly woman waited her turn to speak with me after my talk. “It doesn’t really matter how you walk,” she said..
Books are like friends — both have an inordinate influence in your life. I have two middle schoolers and I know the..
Karl Barth is reported to have advised young Christians to hold their Bible in one hand and their newspaper in the other...
Every single morning my first thought is: Does my head hurt? That is, if I haven’t already been awakened at 4 a.m...
Some time ago I read an interview with George Miller, co-writer and director of 2015’s “Mad Max: Fury Road.” It’s a phenomenal..
I just finished teaching a week-long class full of the most amazing people. Twenty-four students, all participants in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s..
Yesterday I was back in church. For weeks, I have been traveling here and there doing what I do, so it was..
Living on Puget Sound, my husband, Rick, and I love putt-putting around on the Willie C, our 45-year-old, 25-foot Swedish troller boat...
The gospel of Jesus Christ, our faith and the pronouncements of the church calls us to be inclusive — and to not just..
TWO YEARS AGO, I had the privilege to serve as a commissioner for the 222nd General Assembly. Though feeling inadequate to make..
A lot of how we express ourselves as people of faith can be summed up in that simple phrase “thoughts and prayers.”..
My friend Jane is about to die. Her husband David texted me last night to tell me that the doctors say it..
Within months of graduating from seminary, I was ordained to the Ministry of Word and Sacrament. I remember the first time I..
When I was in seminary we were taught about three basic kinds of sermons. The first is a Yes sermon. It focuses..
I will stand at my watchpost, and station myself on the rampart; I will keep watch to see what he will say..
The story in Exodus 1:1-22 tells us that the powers that be wanted to maintain the status quo. The “establishment” was afraid..
I confess: Learning that the New Testament never uses the word stable or barn to describe where Jesus was born was borderline..
Hope as a verb is anemic, a flimsy little cobweb. “I hope it doesn’t rain today,” we say. Hope-as-a-verb doesn’t even have..
I was on my way to class, driving down Burnet Road toward Austin Seminary in Texas. Burnet (pronounced “burn-it”) is classic Austin...
We asked our bloggers to share why they are Presbyterian. These are their responses. I was predestined to be Presbyterian. I’m not..
The rules of English spelling are a mess, and so are its rules for capitalization. It’s so simple in German: Capitalize the..
I’ve been blessed with good health. When I hit a little bump in the road, like tearing a tendon in my right..
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