The number one goal at summer camp for my teenage son, Garrison, was to skipper a Lightning, a 19-foot-long fully rigged sailing..
I never intended to earn a Masters of Divinity degree. As a 24-year-old, nondenominational fundapentacharisgelical, my faith mentors and peers disdained the..
Guest commentary from Todd McCoy Perhaps many of you have been pondering the same question I have: “Given the ongoing polarization of..
PASADENA, CALIF – “I was 18 years old when God called me to America,” explained Sam Theophylus, born in Hyderabad, India. “I didn’t know what it..
I was at a presbytery meeting recently, and, because all of our options for childcare fell through, I brought my 10-year-old son..
Most American churches have sought to diversify their membership in recent decades so that that the 21st century faith community would better..
In 1 Corinthians 8, Paul urges the church to take care lest their liberty (the liberty to eat food offered to idols..
For a long time I didn’t think I was a very creative person because most of the creative people I knew were..
WHEN YOU GO TO A MEETING of the General Assembly of our communion, as I do every other year as part of..
Some church leaders call it a “challenge budget,” others a “faith budget.” I call it a bad idea. Faced with a gap..
“How big of a cardboard tree could you make for VBS this year?” I love questions like this! As a pastor, creative-type..
In 2010, the General Assembly approved an authoritative interpretation (AI) that included the following statements: “Neither the General Assembly nor the GAPJC..
A guest blog by Melissa DeRosia and Shannon Meacham Shannon: It was November 2010 when I stood in the pulpit of..
What’s next for mid councils in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)? That’s still to be determined, as the decisions the 2014 General Assembly..
I recalled these familiar words from “Kung Fu Panda” as I was touring the facility of a church pastored by a colleague in a..
I love when caricatures get blown out of the water. I love when negative caricatures I’ve believed get disproven (I’d rather admit..
In a small house in Portsmouth, Virginia, we sat next to her as she lay in a hospital bed in her dining..
“A MAN CANNOT LIE,” said Sigmund Freud (in the sexist language of his day), “if he lies with his lips he will..
What should a teaching elder and the session try to accomplish in the first year of ministry? If people think that the..
WASHINGTON D.C. – It was late on a recent Friday afternoon when I slipped into New York Avenue Presbyterian Church here to..
by Jacob Bolton I was learning about compost. I’d never composted before, but a member of the church I serve informed me..
I would love this to be one of those articles whose title is a misnomer – an article that claims it is..
Nothing brings me more joy than to transform the sanctuary into the new, exciting location in which our VBS will take place…..
by Rick Morris Early in the morning last December I awoke to a call from my classmate Kiko. A fox had gotten..
This may be one of the more inflammatory things I’ve said in awhile: I listen to Christmas music in July. In recent..
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