The PC(USA)’s financial support system for pastors was built in the 1980s and doesn’t meet the church’s current needs and challenges, writes Board of Pension’s president Frank Spencer. We can change this if we adapt our understanding of church.
Episcopalian Jay Blossom wrestles with the holy symbols and contradictions displayed at the coronation of King Charles this past Saturday.
"I'm making you go through this because I went through it." What if we left this way of thinking behind to follow Jesus, Eric Barreto and Willie James Jennings ask?
How do we reckon with the systems that formed us? How do we move forward? Eric D. Barreto and Willie James Jennings discuss.
Attorney and professional parliamentarian Jim Slaughter shares a brief history of Robert's Rules of Order.
Why Eric Barreto tells his Greek students to never say, "In the Greek, it says..." while preaching.
Sometimes, you won’t belong, writes recent seminary student Ashley Brown. And that’s ok.
How can we imagine theological education beyond the false goals of possession, mastery and control? Eric D. Barreto and Willie James Jennings offer their thoughts.
If clergy help to create a space of belonging for others, where do we find belonging ourselves, wonders Karie Charlton?
What one late friend taught Aaron Neff about belonging.
Margaret Alsup remembers the lessons she learned as a child in church.
In this poem, Barbara Wood Gray shares who she experiences God to be.
Rebecca Gresham remembers her time at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary and the belonging she felt as a student, young mother and resident.
A child wearing brown loafers and no socks (just like his father), reading a Bible in Sunday worship (just like his father) — What can this boy teach us about belonging?
"Missional confirmation inspires a missional identity and commissions young people to a missional way of life," writes Mark D. Hinds.
“Even in a room full of exhaustion, there is hope.” Shani McIlwain shares her experience at the Katie Geneva Cannon Center for Womanist Leadership’s spring conference.
Phillip Blackburn offers two tips for thinking about church vitality in rural settings.
The days after Easter hold a unique opportunity for pastors to engage their community, writes Raymond R. Roberts.
Eric Barretto and Willie James Jennings discuss how our knowledge of belonging resides in our bodies.
How one pastor’s investment in a theology of belonging has liberated him from resentment.
With the recent release of ChatGPT, anyone can use artificial intelligence to produce papers or sermons. What does this mean for the art of sermon writing and for the work of pastors, wonders RJ Kang?
In the face of death, chaplaincy intern Ashley Brown learns the gift of bearing witness.
We invite you to prayerfully reflect on the incarnation with a piece of original artwork by Sarah Scoggin.
A child in cowgirl boots heralds the coming of Easter for Andrew Taylor-Troutman.
Before we hear the stories of all “they” did to Jesus, we might stop and look at ourselves this Holy Week. That is what Lent calls for, isn’t it? — John Cleghorn
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