Growing up as an only child on a remote Tennessee cattle farm, my summers were spent largely within the confines of my..
My introduction to play happened during a season of exhaustion. As the solo pastor of one church and session moderator of five..
A couple of summers ago, during what seemed to be an endless summer (joke was on me it seemed; 2020 was just..
From March until December of 2020 – from Easter until Christmas – not a week went by without the death of someone..
We like to think what we do matters. Has an impact. Changes lives. But does it? I confess: I’m a “change..
“We are all failures — at least the best of us are.” — J.M. Barrie “Everything stinks till it’s finished.” — Dr. Seuss Who..
This is what often happens. Over the years, a Presbyterian congregation gets smaller and smaller, its remaining core of members get older..
Reading is a key part of our lives. Usually when a printed text catches our eye, we read it. Reading is such..
My first memory of a storybook includes the Fisher-Price record player, an illustrated version of “Snow White,” a tone to turn the..
I cannot remember how, as an adult, I first got my hands on “A Ring of Endless Light” by Madeleine L’Engle. My..
The Board of Pensions of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has enabled over 100 new calls in three years. It has done so..
Remember those Zoom meetings early in the pandemic when “you’re on mute” became our communal refrain? At the start of the COVID-19..
Vilmarie Cintrón-Olivieri explores art as a form of spiritual practice.
God is experiential. This might be more easily embraced by Pentecostals than Presbyterians (and I’ve been both), but Scripture affirms this..
“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..
Patience as a fruit of the Spirit Given a choice about which of the Galatians 5 fruit of the Spirit to..
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