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..
A RECENT ARTICLE IN USA TODAY reported Miami as the American city with the rudest drivers. The data compiled by AutoVantage, an..
In the last line of his 2008 acceptance speech, Barack Obama went to Scripture. “Let us hold without wavering to the..
SEVEN YEARS AGO, one of Austin Seminary’s most beloved professors retired. He was a man of uncommon integrity — an ethicist, a..
IT’S NO NEWS TO ANYONE that for decades our denomination has been roiled in conflict. This is neither unexpected nor shameful; instead,..
OUR COUNTRY IS IN TURMOIL due to the intense race between the presidential candidates. So my blessing to you is for discernment...
I KNEW MY GRANDMOTHER WOULD DIE while we were in the Philippines, so we went to visit her before we left. “This..
I BELONG TO A LECTIONARY STUDY GROUP that meets the first week of every January. We present exegetical papers on the texts..
MY MOM, A VERY SERIOUS AND THOUGHTFUL PERSON, called me a couple of weeks ago, laughing uncontrollably. Since this was completely out..
I GREW UP IN THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH. The liturgies of the “Book of Common Prayer” planted good seeds and grew deep roots for the..
PREACHERS CAN FEEL ENORMOUS PRESSURE for our Easter sermons to rise to the greatness of the occasion. How do we make it..
by Paul Roberts As I write this, the annual birthday commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr. is just around the corner. In..
IT WAS CLEAR TO ME FROM DAY ONE in the little Pentecostal church of my youth that pride goeth before a..
RECENTLY, IN THE CHURCH I ATTEND here in Austin — on, ironically, the feast day of Christ the King — there was..
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS I READ last year was Daniel Kahneman’s “Thinking, Fast and Slow.” A central argument is what he..
LET’S TALK ABOUT BENEDICTIONS. The benediction we receive at the end of a worship service is a fundamental part of our worship...
WE CAN ALL PROBABLY AGREE ON THIS MUCH: This year’s SCOTUS decision on marriage was epic. But what caught my imagination was..
A FEW YEARS AGO, I WAS GOING TO VISIT my friend Jacob’s ancestral home in western Kenya. This is the place where..
“WE NEED TO TAKE SABBATH MORE SERIOUSLY.” Those were the words that I have heard over and over during my life as..
RECENTLY, I TOOK PART IN THE ORDINATION of one of our recent graduates. He was ordained in his home congregation in New..
by Cláudio Carvalhaes WHEN I TAUGHT AT LOUISVILLE SEMINARY, I had the chance to work with Christopher Elwood, a PC(USA) pastor and,..
Something there is that doesn’t love a tag line – that phrase you put on your letterhead just under the name of..
by Robert Hoch ONE EVENING, SITTING IN THE BACK PATIO, we were struck by the sight of our children’s bikes in the..
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