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..
Collegiate ministry encompasses all areas of young adults’ lives. Campus chaplains invite students into practices of hospitality, exploration, community and service, and..
Peter Steinke, the noted author, congregational systems consultant and professor, died unexpectedly at home on Monday, July 6, 2020. I learned of..
Ordination and ministry may seem like a strange tension — one not really “tense” at all. After all, isn’t “ministry” what those..
Amid the isolation of COVID-19, morning walks through my neighborhood have become a comforting ritual of contemplation. Each morning holds a new..
The baptismal font in the sanctuary of the church I serve, First Presbyterian Church of High Point, North Carolina, was given..
One of the characteristics of the overarching narrative of the Bible, both the Hebrew Scriptures and the Christian New Testament, is..
Several Mays ago, I took a class of undergraduate students to the Abbey of Gethsemani in Trappist, Kentucky, to walk on the..
Most of us who have lived through the ordination and sexuality wars of past decades know the phrase “mutual forbearance.” Fewer..
Bill Webber was a bigger-than-life mentor and one of the kindest persons I’ve known. He was president of New York Theological Seminary,..
Karen Marsh looks to “vintage” sinner-saints as conversation partners in college ministry.
I teach polity at Austin Seminary, and I try to convey to my students two core truths. First, that the Book of..
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