“Go outside. Look up. Secret of life.” – Anne Lamott My wife and I are raising our children only about 30 miles..
Garfield Street, Washington, D.C. My mother is standing in the doorway of her bedroom. Then she turns to the bureau to fold..
Author’s note: This is a work of fiction. However, “Connecting Grace” is a real initiative of Johnson C. Smith Theological Seminary, in..
I learned to run by chasing my father. To wait on a front stoop with laced shoes was to demand entrance into..
It was Sunday morning and there we were, clustered together, in a little church on the south side of Chicago. We were..
I write this from the passenger seat of Jill Duffield’s car. On the dashboard a plastic Jesus bobs, his palms lifted upwards..
By most popular North American accounts, the European church is dying. Old, tired and running out of energy. Soon the last..
It started simply enough: I would take a couple of seminary classes and if I liked them, I’d take a couple more...
“How’s seminary?” I used to cringe at this query posed by those who thought they were asking a simple, innocuous question. During..
Treading carefully on a rippled and rifted sidewalk, I passed toothless pumpkins that grinned in the pre-dawn light. Once poured to provide..
I am back in an active search for another position. It has been 20 years since I was in the call process..
David Lee Jones explores how “parking lot meetings” reveal deeper issues of maturity, communication, and conflict in church leadership, using Bowen’s family systems theory.
It all started with a sign. One year after the fatal shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, The Episcopal Church of..
"And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations." (Revelation 22:2) “A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation..
Robert Hedges, a Presbyterian minister who leads the Resurrection Power recovery ministry in Washington, Pennsylvania, describes the work he does as “the..
I was baptized as infant in a white clapboard church in the rural Canadian Rocky Mountains. The week before I received the..
Andrew slid up to the table to speak to the chaplain at the Travel Center of America (TA) in Columbia, New Jersey...
St. Louis - Stated clerk J. Herbert Nelson articulated a vision for the 223rd General Assembly well before Presbyterians arrived in St...
Afriyie Maxine Huie dances. Ashley Armistead runs. Carvel Bennett teaches. This is how they spend much for their time. The wonder of..
The great Baptist theologian Carlyle Marney used the phrase “a priest at every elbow.” Marney was emphasizing a key theological insight in..
ST. LOUIS — Families who have suffered detention and separation from their children upon reaching the southern U.S. border have typically left..
Did you know that, but for the commissioners’ vote on the floor of a plenary session at General Assembly, our Presbyterian Church..
Motel 6 famously advertises, “We’ll leave the light on for you.” A clever slogan that embodies a sense of hospitality and home,..
To work for the transformation of society The two of us have spent the last two years (and longer) working in the..
The 223rd General Assembly will address issues of racial justice in the convention hall and on the streets. Look for it, weaving..
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