Guest commentary by Albert G. Butzer Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude...
In the Faerie Tale Theater version of Cinderella, which I watched innumerable times as a child, Jean Stapleton plays the Fairy Godmother...
When I graduated from seminary in the spring of 1982, I had never heard of family systems theory. I began a degree..
Every. Month. Every month I sit down with my budget, my bank account statements and my credit card statements. I’m into my..
Have you ever noticed how matter-of-fact Risen Jesus is with those who first encounter him? He says to the women in Matthew,..
I occasionally dream about church. I mean literal in-the-night-while-I’m-sleeping dreams. Dream experts say we all dream in our sleep, quite a lot..
Don’t you sell ads? Doesn’t the cost of my subscription pay for the magazine? Doesn’t the denomination partially fund the Outlook? The..
Guest commentary by Carlton Johnson On April 3, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. shared what was, in my opinion, his most powerful..
Theology is what God is up to in God’s creation. Economics is how God’s household organizes itself in response to God’s..
Money is always a story. It is a story of where we’ve come from. It is a story about where we’re..
Sociologist Fred Block believes it’s time to take economic fundamentalism down from its pedestal. In his article “Confronting Economic Fundamentalism” (published in..
STARTING POINT: THE NEED TO BECOME PARTNERS AGAIN The worlds of theology and economics, of churches and business, of faith and the..
“An ecumenical school of Governance, Economics and Management (GEM) should be established to develop economic competencies and empowerment within the ecumenical movement...
I stepped out of my lodgings at Tao Fong Shan Christian Centre early on a Sunday morning in late August and passed..
Compiled by Elizabeth Hinson-Hasty Books that are accessible for church study groups “Justice Not Greed,” edited by Pam Brubaker and Rogate..
by Gustav Theile Think about economics. What do you see? Rationality probably. Economic growth certainly. Profit maximization for sure. Self-interest must also..
Bill Carl, a Presbyterian pastor and former president of Pittsburgh Seminary, wrote a chapter in the book “Best Advice: Wisdom on..
Guest commentary by Daniel Wilmoth My dad is the restless type, and when I was a kid he changed jobs every few..
Before discussing how best to raise the topic of wealth and economics in congregational settings, I want to summarize some wisdom concerning..
When Martin Luther inadvertently began the Protestant Reformation in October 1517, it was his judgment that the Catholic Church had adopted..
If often we in the church don’t have much to say about economics, Jesus sure does. The sermon on the plain, a..
President Trump wants American churches to believe they are making Christianity great again. He has vowed to “destroy” a law banning..
When people ask what I do for a living I no longer say “seminary professor.” Now, more often than not I say..
Guest commentary by Matt Schmidt I am sleeping inside the 71-degree womb of Edna, a climate-controlled, robotic arthropod — a giant mechanical..
I have held the last of what remains of an earthly life in my hands, whole people now only ashes, years of..
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