Since the late spring of 2017, five acres of Union Presbyterian Seminary’s (UPSem) land has been under the care and cultivation of..
Many churches in the United States, from mainline to evangelical and beyond, host a Stewardship Sunday every year.
Guest blog by Alissa Conner This month, we invited our bloggers to write a “love letter” to the church. Here are their..
Grover Cleveland, William Harrison, Theodore Roosevelt. John Muir, Rachel Carson, David Brower. At first glance, we might say that what connects these..
This month, we invited our bloggers to write a “love letter” to the church. Here are their letters. Dear church, You aren’t..
Guest commentary by Heath Rada Reality time! I am a Virginian, born and bred. Whereas I have adopted North Carolina as my..
Guest commentary by Charles Holmes The conjoined twins of racism and politics, connected via several points along their central nervous systems, have become..
This month, we invited our bloggers to write a "love letter" to the church. Here are their letters. Dear church, I love..
You shall have no other gods before me. The earth is the Lord’s and all that is in it, the world, and..
This month, we invited our bloggers to write a "love letter" to the church. Here are their letters. Beloved, Remember that is..
“Who let that Hawk out? Whew, the Hawk is flying high today!” I exclaimed as walked into my office from a bone-chilling..
One of the Pharisees asked Jesus to eat with him, and he went into the Pharisee’s house and took his place at..
The bones of Joseph, which the Israelites had brought up from Egypt, were buried at Shechem, in the portion of the land..
“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea around us.” — Franz Kafka Start by looking at a picture of..
“Between the rupture of life and the rapture of language lies a world of awe and witness.” — Christian Wiman I was..
Guest commentary by Dean K. Thompson It is a privilege to be in the grateful company of many who are celebrating..
there is nothing for me outside of You. this is the only thing i know. and when i have lost sight of..
Nancy Miller Gomez worked first in news broadcasting and then for a reality show, both purporting to be truth-telling genres. But the..
Because many people now think evangelism means fundamentalists shouting on street corners, lots of mainline Protestant churches have backed away not only..
When I was born, the doctors bound me to a word: “girl.” Perhaps because this word never fit, I became obsessed with..
“Master, stop!” The disciples turned and saw a man running after them, the sort of man who didn’t usually have to run...
What in the world is a blue-eyed snake? A sign that things are surely changing, that what is old is sloughing off,..
1. How can you say, “We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us,” when, in fact, the false..
Flannery O’Connor prays: “Dear God, tonight it is not disappointing because you have given me a story. Don’t let me ever think,..
Guest commentary by Aric Clark I raised two fingers as I prepared to offer what would be one of the most sacred..
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