The bumper sticker on the car in the Chick-Fil-A parking lot read: “Heaven has walls, hell has open borders.” Google tells me..
This week we asked our bloggers to consider their experience of alcohol and church. Here are their reflections. Beer is not my..
This week we asked our bloggers to consider their experience of alcohol and church. Here are their reflections. With her typical wry..
Guest commentary by Kim Douglass Marin When my grandfather accepted a new call 75 years ago, the goodbyes and welcomes were private...
When I was in seminary, I developed a life-threatening airborne food allergy to peanuts and tree nuts. For the first four years..
Pastors often talk about the value of colleagues. Those folks listen to our concerns, share ideas and help guide us when we..
The charge is armed robbery. The defendant’s lawyer declares at the outset that this is a case of mistaken identification. I had..
Sharon’s leadership of the board is marked by wise, gentle persistence. Sharon retired as a senior manager in the Internal Revenue..
I graduated from seminary a few weekends ago. It was an amazing day: a fitting culmination of countless written words, late nights,..
“Sunday school books were made for black people, but the black church doesn’t like books.” A decade has passed, but I remember..
Speaking at the March on Washington in August 1963, Eugene Carson Blake, stated clerk of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A...
I sat in the publisher’s brightly-lit office, fidgeting with my hands. First, I drummed my fingertips on the armrests of my chair...
“I am owned by the blood of all of them Who ever were owned by my blood. We cannot be free of..
“What do we do now?” That’s the refrain I hear after I speak or preach or teach about the long history and..
I called faith a gold-trimmed Gospel, a half-note suspension resolved in hymnic harmony, rehearsed prayers punctuated with perfect gasps and laughter, old..
This past weekend, as I write these words at the beginning of June, a large collection of influential evangelical pastors and leaders..
I recently attended the PC(USA) Transitional Ministry Conference at the Zephyr Point Conference Center in Lake Tahoe, Nevada. The conference itself was..
Krislund Camp and Conference Center is settled in the rural northern stretch of the Appalachian Mountains in central Pennsylvania. Like many faith-based..
Guest commentary by Paul Watermulder “And a little child shall lead them,” we read in Scripture. Or in the words of Jesus..
We tell our stories slant. And this story is personal. My grandpa Del was a magical storyteller. A journalist for the Associated..
“If God would stop telling jokes, I might act serious.” – Tukaram (Muslim poet) “My Lord told me a joke And seeing..
What’s on your summer reading list? A novel? A heavy-duty work of nonfiction you’ve been wanting to dig into, but have not..
Guest commentary by Jody Mask As I write this, people all over America are celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first steps taken..
Jen came on board as our art designer in 2017. While technically not part of the staff (she’s a contractor), Jen is..
Guest commentary by Liz Rasley The new live-action movie “Aladdin” isn’t a new story at all. It’s an old story (even older..
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