It’s about the blood — joining boards at angles, edges are negotiations, prone to pinch, and nails pierce like talking points, splinters..
Listen to the author read his poem. So Judas came straight to Jesus. “Greetings, Rabbi!” he exclaimed and gave him the kiss...
It has become an annual lenten ritual, pulling out rags and the pink paste that smells of wintergreen to polish my baptismal..
My friend Jane is about to die. Her husband David texted me last night to tell me that the doctors say it..
Christianity lost the battle for Christmas a long time ago. There was too much money to be made and too much fantasy..
Of all the words spoken and read, broadcast and printed, muttered to ourselves or shouted aloud, the one Americans most sought to..
Guest commentary by Gerald Little March Madness is here. College basketball fans, coaches and players cheer, coach and strive to lead their..
Guest commentary by Lora Burge Representing PC(USA) World Mission and Presbyterian Peace Fellowship, I recently spent a week in Honduras as part..
Guest commentary by Heath Rada Sometimes life confronts us with situations where there seem to be no “right” choices. It is at..
The other day a friend mentioned to me that her family, including a newborn granddaughter, might be looking for a church. That’s..
Parents, Sunday school teachers and ministry leaders often prepare children to pray by encouraging eyes to be closed, hands to be folded..
Prayer and the Reformed tradition The Reformed tradition is not a monolithic statement of doctrine. It is a variety of voices from..
I’ve become a big fan of the concept known as GRACEFUL PREACHING. While this might be a new term for a few..
I went with a couple friends to see “A Wrinkle in Time,” directed by Ava DuVernay. My heart jumped when Mrs. Who,..
Several times I’ve prayed anxious prayers asking God to avert a crisis. On Sept. 11, 2001, when I heard that my nephew..
Guest commentary by Sam Locke We have a Way Forward Commission, an All Agency Review, a Governance Task Force and others doing..
Following a sports team is an avocation filled with irrational exuberance and irrational gloom. It offers us no logical explanation about why..
“Therefore, let it be regarded as a settled principle,” wrote John Calvin, “that the sacraments have the same office as the Word..
Churches like our own are “challenged more strongly by the sacraments than by anything else,” according to J.J. von Allmen, a Swiss..
Sermon-writing day is rough. It’s painful, boring, heart-wrenching, soul-draining, and it makes me whine a lot. Most weeks, I’ll come home one..
Most Sunday mornings after proclaiming the benediction, I walk with the acolyte down the sanctuary’s center aisle.
Within months of graduating from seminary, I was ordained to the Ministry of Word and Sacrament. I remember the first time I..
Lately my prayer has been to be useful: Make me useful, God. Where this plea originates during days overflowing with unending tasks..
Guest commentary by Jordan B. Davis This year, Lent has had a new and beautiful meaning in my life. For the first..
Guest commentary by Joseph D. Small The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) was once blessed and/or cursed by an abundance of special interest organizations..
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