Rebecca Gresham reflects on the difference between sabbath and self-care — and how some activities can be both.
Aaron Neff reflects on sabbath in conversations with parents and a rabbi.
Reflecting on T.S. Eliot’s “Gerontion” in light of a family health scare, Jenny Lee discovers a way forward through faithfulness — to God and to each other.
Andrew Taylor-Troutman shares how an hourly break at his community pool gives his family a glimpse of sabbath.
Did King Saul have PTSD, Elana Keppel Levy wonders? Perhaps. What she knows from her own life is this: surviving is an act of courage.
Brian R. Louis, a pastor in southern Arizona, shares the hate and love he experienced at a recent Pride parade.
Ashley Mason Brown offers concrete ideas for how faith leaders can assist with lowering the rate of gun violence in the United States.
Responding to the Southern Baptist Convention's actions to bar female pastoral leadership, biblical scholar Frances Taylor Gench reflects on how the PC(USA) engages Scripture that instructs women to be subservient such as 1 Timothy 2.
There are whispers of a "Ted Lasso" spin-off, but Brendan McLean doesn't want one. Applying the hospice principle of a good death to a beloved story can lead to something profound, he writes.
"I know my experience at the Eras Tour made me a better pastor," writes Hannah Lovaglio.
America’s at an impasse in the gun legislation debate. What if churches led the way through honest curiosity, Eliza C. Jaremko wonders?
"Let's begin again," writes Courtney LeBlanc.
In the PC(USA), there’s a lot of focus on pastor burnout — and rightly so. But lay leaders are also facing exhaustion, and we need to care for them, writes Phillip Blackburn.
As a millennial and former youth ministry worker, Eric Nolin is no stranger to a world where school shootings happen. There's much to be done, but perhaps one place to start is with a kind word.
What the wildfires in Canada have reminded Aaron Neff about the power of listening.
"At 8:16 a.m. the quiet of the office/ broke, the first shot/ cracking the air..." — Courtney LeBlanc remembers the 2013 Navy Yard Shooting.
Pastor and New Yorker Cheni Khonje evaluates the comparison between Daniel Penny, who choked Jordan Neely to death on the New York City subway, and the good Samaritan in Luke 10.
A poem by Scott Barton on Matthew 10:40–42.
Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church honored the life of Betsey Jackson, one of its 26 original members in 1808, by renaming their boardroom and commissioning a portrait.
Andrew Taylor-Troutman pens an ode to a grandfather and all that he passed on — from cookie salads to baseball to a prayer.
In an excerpt from Little Big Moments, Andrew Taylor-Troutman reflects on the best dad gift.
Every pastor deserves someone who loves them and their church equally, someone who can help them navigate the challenges of ministry and avoid aimless drifting. — Matthew Skolnik
With an influx of Christian immigrants from the global South coming to America, some writers forecast a more conservative American Christianity. Katherine Pater looks at statistics and Acts 8 to argue an inclusive future is possible.
What can poetry accomplish?
Karie Charlton offers three words of advice to churches charting a new path.
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