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..
Last year, a short article in the New York Times announced the retirement of the Ringling Brothers/Barnum and Bailey Circus elephants. Changing..
Today, about an hour ago as I wrote these words, I confess that I hit the wall. It was the umpteen-millionth spam..
My Armenian family owes an enormous debt of gratitude to American Presbyterian mission workers – a debt that goes back to the..
It’s June – the most marrying month of the year. I‘ve long since lost track of how many weddings I’ve officiated over..
My father-in-law moved from Korea to America to live with my wife and me at the age of 62 and changed his..
I was visiting with the pastor of a church where I was the guest preacher. He lamented that the youth there didn’t..
“Help us, O Lord, to remember our kindred beyond the sea. … We are one world, O God, and one great human..
I occasionally dream about church. I mean literal in-the-night-while-I’m-sleeping dreams. Dream experts say we all dream in our sleep, quite a lot..
When people ask what I do for a living I no longer say “seminary professor.” Now, more often than not I say..
A funny thing happened when I sat down recently to do a little word study on “joy” and its occurrences in the..
As I write these words on the second Sunday of Advent, 2016 (that annus horribilis) is winding down, and I’m thinking about..
The words of my mouth and the thoughts of my heart behind the words … Almighty and most merciful God, I thank..
It happened again just recently. I was going through one of those new-fangled car washes. Not the kind I grew up..
by Paul Roberts Recently, I heard a churchgoer discuss her husband’s disdain for the church. Her husband considers the church leaders flashy. “For..
SHE DOES NOT SEEM to have stepped out of her place. “Lord, do you not care that my sister has left..
Professor Amy Pauw, from Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, wrote a piece recently on Ephesians 2:11-22 in which she made this observation: “An..
Every August, a stream of first-year students from Lake Forest College walks across the street from their campus to our sanctuary...
We live times of extreme feelings and beliefs, when we staunchly bunk ourselves into camps and stay there without wanting to..
I am stuck in an airport with a very long layover. My gate is empty of other passengers and will be for..
Every four years, the United States Sailing Association publishes a document called “The Racing Rules of Sailing.” It’s the Form of..
The church is obsessed with the idea of leadership. I think we have learned it from the culture around us, which..
by Gary Neal Hansen I’ve been baking my family’s bread for quite a while now. It is mostly self-serving: home-baked bread is..
YES, I KNOW IT WAS NEARLY 3 MONTHS AGO, BUT... hands down, my favorite liturgical holy day is Pentecost. Though I rarely..
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