“Will you take care of this child?” The question caught DeEdra Clinkscale off guard. As a teacher, she had phoned the..
In the tradition of Murray Bowen’s systems theory, Peter Steinke authored “Congregational Leadership in Anxious Times: Being Calm and Courageous No Matter..
This spring, the board of Pittsburgh Theological Seminary named Asa J. Lee as the seminary’s new president and professor of theological formation..
“What do you think is going to happen with churches after the pandemic?” To this question, prominent Christian researcher Diana Butler..
When he was a boy, Leonard Jackson caught the school bus every day next to the old cemetery at First Presbyterian Church..
Self-control! It sounds so very Presbyterian, doesn’t it? This is the final fruit of the Spirit listed by Paul in Galatians 5:23...
Interview by Jay Blossom In more than 20 years as a hospital chaplain, Beth McKee has ministered to people in many stages..
The stories of churches serving in a pandemic year are full of faithfulness. Faithfulness not defined as unfettered success, but as..
A Christian is … “What’s your definition of a Christian?” A leader of a Sunday morning class at church asked me that..
Our communal life is in crisis. I do not know how things got so bad — how I can see something one..
Given a choice about which of the Galatians 5 fruit of the Spirit to write about, I suppose I chose patience because..
Between Easter and Pentecost, the church celebrates Christ's Ascension. Why?
In order to understand the perspective in which this article is written I must first introduce myself. I am an enrolled member..
We come to Scripture with anticipation. We come with an openness to learn and to be challenged. We also come with assumptions..
The fruit of the Spirit in Galatians 5 is not presented as a random catalog of virtues. It is important to note..
This is an opportune time for the church to reflect on the fruit of the Spirit, as deep, angry partisanship and polarization..
Now, in early 2021, many people, including some who once doubted, know that the COVID-19 pandemic is deadly serious and distressingly..
Religious educator John Westerhoff invited us years ago to understand faith as a verb more than a noun. Westerhoff argued that persons..
“We are not alone. We live in God’s world.” These words open the United Church of Canada’s affirmation of faith, known..
As we gear up for another year of improvising, going with the flow and making the best of less-than-ideal circumstances, many who..
Amid all the bad news of the pandemic, there is one thing that remains true and steadfast: the good news of the..
In Louisville, Kentucky, our year began on March 13. That evening the police fired 32 bullets into an apartment where Breonna..
These are tough times for all of us in many ways. The pandemic brings death and sorrow, endangering everyone. Our lives are..
As I prepared to write this article, I was trying to find my work journal from 2019. When I transitioned into full-time..
My journey into the art of spiritual direction began, surprisingly enough, in the Texas Hill Country. I was a newly minted pastor..
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