A poignant reflection on identity, inheritance, and love, exploring the emotions of cherishing a parent's enduring legacy. — Rodney Sadler Jr.
Jermaine Ross-Allam offers an introduction to the purpose of the PC(USA)'s Center for the Repair of Historical Harms, where he serves as the inaugural director.
Wordsmithed policy, if celebrated as an end in and of itself, is not a step on the journey toward a new way of being, says Larissa Kwong Abazia.
Jan Bros writes about weather systems, hand wringing and freedom.
A poem about a man who would take walks by Andrew Taylor-Troutman.
There's what we can't see, writes Dartinia Hull, and there is what we don't see.
From a shorter work week to deeper personal growth, the implications of artificial intelligence point toward profits that are beyond simply economic, writes Chris Burton.
A Matthew 18 church is one where welcome is practiced, conflict is named, grace is extended, and God is present, writes Eliza Jaremko.
"The missing never ends, nor does that love that reached from my dad to me to my daughter and back," Mary Bird Lanzavecchia.
"It feels like resurrection." Small church member Beth Bradshaw reflects on the ups and downs of attending a church in a small town.
A poem by Shuly Xóchitl Cawood.
A poem by Kathryn Lester-Bacon.
When wonder awakens, so does a connection to the most intimate ways in which we identify ourselves, our relationship to one another and with the Divine.
"There isn't an age requirement to care about humanity," writes Young Adult Volunteer Naomi McQuiller.
People of faith must continue to advocate for the passage of national gun-safety laws, writes the PC(USA)’s advocacy director for the Office of Public Witness & Presbyterian Ministry at the United Nations Jimmie Hawkins.
"I had always felt firmly rooted in my Presbyterian identity yet drawn to ecumenical and interfaith spaces." — Eliza Smith DeBevoise
If a Bible is read in the forest and no one is there to hear it, is it still God’s Word?
As he walks through the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Master of Divinity student Tatum Miller considers what it means to belong.
How can your financial resources bless others after you die?
Cynthia Rigby writes about perichoresis or "mutual indwelling." This term is usually used in theological circles to reference the relationship of the Trinity, but can it also reference how we belong to one another?
Pittsburgh Theological Seminary alum Simeon Rodgers reflects on a pilgrimage he took to the U.S.-Mexico border.
Can doctrine be redeemed from the label of boring? Austin Seminary professor Cynthia Rigby thinks so.
Lee Hinson Hasty reflects on the work being done to adapt theological education and the holiness of fostering change.
"There is great opportunity for reframing our pipeline of talent, ensuring we can provide the future of the church with educated and sharp theological thinkers who are capable of loving those who think differently than themselves."
College chaplain Catherine Knott reflects on the role Robert Augustus Masters' book has played in her ministry.
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