Psychologist and theologian Chanequa Walker-Barnes encounters her tenth grade self in Beyoncé’s latest album, "Cowboy Carter."
Alan Olson called Amazon customer service expecting to pour out his righteous anger. Instead, he encountered an employee who taught him about grace.
The recently amended "Book of Order" mandates privacy protection for accused abusers, even when a case involves minors or adults who lack mental capacity. There’s a group wanting to change this, writes James S. Evinger.
Former President Trump's promotion of the "God Bless the USA Bible" desecrates the sacred in the name of profit and politics, writes Emery J. Cummins.
If worship is meant to be a 'work of the people,' how can we welcome everyone, including those who disrupt our expectations? — Rebecca Gresham
Michael Parker recalls the life of missionary and New Testament scholar Kenneth Bailey, who depicted Jesus as a “metaphorical theologian.”
The great ecological flood of global warming is sweeping life away, writes Raymond R. Roberts, but we are not without options or hope.
Susan Hudson and Veda Shaheen Gill discuss the radical hospitality in Pakistan.
Ashley Brown shares how members of St. Charles Avenue Presbyterian Church’s dementia group minister through art.
Presbyterians sometimes describe themselves as "people of the middle way." What does this look like in a world of AI, Eliza Jaremko asks?
Laura Strauss offers three tips for churches that need help making ends meet.
Podcasting pastor Amy Meyer shares seven tips for anyone interested in producing their own podcast.
People are having intense, life-transforming spiritual experiences, writes Graham Standish, but they don't feel the church is the right place to talk about them.
"To fully live into sabbath, maybe we need to admit to being lazy in the best kind of way," writes Katrina Pekich-Bundy.
Becca Messman's view of hospitality changed after ministering to a young, dying woman who lived with one foot in heaven and one on earth.
Both "Dune: Part Two" and the Barmen Declaration call Christians to reject religious corruption, writes Brendan McLean.
Katy Shevel's daily ritual of drinking tea provides punctuation and structure to her days — and reminds her that she is held within the broader design of God’s time.
David B. Wigger, who sits on the Presbytery of the Western Reserve's Committee on Preparation for Ministry, supports an upcoming General Assembly overture.
Richard Dubose discovers the vulnerability that settled in with the pandemic allowed Montreat staffers to understand what authentic and faithful hospitality includes.
Invitations to other denominations isn’t enough. Instead, Joel Winchip believes, finding the strengths – and weaknesses – we all see in our ministries can help us serve more people.
While lost in the once familiar New York City, Johanna W.H. van Wijk-Bos found two women who offered guidance and protection to the wandering stranger.
Showing up and saying yes, even when – especially when – we don’t know where that answer will lead, is a major lesson in Christian hospitality, say Colleen Earp and Clayton Rascoe.
When we embrace our trans siblings, the mystery of Easter bursts into our lives, writes Shea Watts.
Writer Alejandra Oliva meditates on preparing feasts for friends — and strangers.
What are we supposed to do about climate change? Reproductive rights? Gun violence? Jesus addresses none of these pressing issues in his last words to the disciples, but that doesn't mean we're left to find solutions on our own, writes Ron Byers.
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