Thank God for One Direction. Every time I feel bad about myself, One Direction is there to pick me up. They remind..
Guest commentary by Franziska Rokoske It seems so innocuous, the request to keep people and their families in our thoughts and prayers..
When called for, or at the organist’s discretion, at the end of lines, or when otherwise the melody pauses, as though gathering..
My father-in-law moved from Korea to America to live with my wife and me at the age of 62 and changed his..
The idea is deceptively simple. When someone is diagnosed with cancer – a diagnosis that often overloads the mind and heart with..
I had the opportunity to go to the “field day” of one of my children recently. I remember some of my own..
As I worked on this issue dedicated to how faith communities can best support those facing cancer, I read a lot of..
Jesus makes many bold promises in the Gospels, but perhaps none is more audacious than when he tells his disciples, “So you have pain now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you” (John 16:22).
Guest commentary by Susan Forshey Over Easter weekend in 1999, my close friends convinced me to end my Lenten media fast a..
A read a blog post a few years ago about "The Oregon Trail generation." Well, that's me! The article focused on..
Society generally views technology through a rational lens, judging technological products only insofar as they enhance convenience, or provide some new capability...
How do we make faithful sense amidst the racket and discord of digital media? How do we “pay attention” in these spaces?..
I love moving quickly. When I was growing up, my parents called me a vacuum cleaner for eating at the speed of..
Guest commentary by Tara Bulger Recently, an old picture of my daughter and me came across my social media feed. My daughter,..
I am currently part of a formation cohort through my alma mater, Fuller Theological Seminary. As a young female pastor, I’ve had..
Ministry with young people is irreducibly technological. Perhaps it has never not been so (after all, Paul’s letters to young Timothy employed..
In her fantastic new book, “Liturgy of the Ordinary,” Tish Harrison Warren describes an all-too-common dynamic of life in the digital age:..
Let it be known that when I die there is not to be a celebration of my life. There will be a..
I read Jacques Ellul’s “The Technological Society” while in seminary in the 1990s. His prescience blew my mind. First published in 1954,..
I was visiting with the pastor of a church where I was the guest preacher. He lamented that the youth there didn’t..
Ponder these two experiences: A church member calls a fellow church member and asks for a personal meeting. In the meeting, the..
In October, I spent two weeks traveling through Lebanon and Syria. The trip was organized by Presbyterian mission worker Elmarie Parker. Our..
I just finished reading Margaret Atwood’s contemporary classic, “The Handmaid’s Tale,” in preparation for the miniseries on Hulu. The story takes..
What comes to mind when you hear Russia? Do you think of the tsars: Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great, Catherine the..
Dorika (15) and Kanyere (16) became child mothers after sexual assault and are juggling to care for their infants while finishing..
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