This week we asked our bloggers what they wish churches talked about more. It was the most diverse gathering of people I’d..
This week we asked our bloggers what they wish churches talked about more. My husband left this morning for his Credo conference...
But when they measured [the manna] out, everyone had just enough. Those who gathered a lot had nothing left over, and those..
“Let's get this straight,” a friend asked me recently. “You went to seminary for four years, spent another year doing a chaplain..
A few days before Christmas, NPR's Radiolab released a program entitled "Worth." The first story, "How Much Would You Pay for a..
I take this term from a UMC minister, John Helmiere, who began a new worshipping community in Seattle called Valley and Mountain,..
1 - Remembering names. We sing, “Amazing grace, how sweet the sound!” But, Dale Carnegie wrote that the sweetest sound to a..
Just what makes that little old ant Think he'll move that rubber tree plant Anyone knows an ant, can't Move a rubber..
A couple weeks ago, I reflected to a friend, "I am so sick of being sick!" Though much, much better than a..
“So, are you married?” It's a question I am often asked. And while this is a common question many receive regardless of..
Psalm 130 Out of the depths I cry to you, O LORD. Lord, hear my voice! Let your ears be attentive to the..
“For nearly one thousand five hundred years Christians have spent the days of Advent not in passive inaction, but in activities strenuous..
‘Twas two weeks before Christmas and all through the land, churches are caught up in the season — the celebrations are grand...
Guest Outpost blog by Charlie Lee Story time I am a father to two young children. As any parent can tell you,..
Ten years ago, on a Sunday in early December, I was tucked in the choir loft of historic Greyfriars Church in Edinburgh,..
Let’s be honest. Advent, the season of contemplative waiting for Christ Immanuel to come, is seriously loosing ground to the chaotic rush..
A little reverent fun with Mark 13:34-27. (Think Vegas lounge act.) Enjoy! “Son of Man is Coming in Clouds” To the tune..
Advent is coming. Advent means coming. Advent is when we actively await the arrival. But what are we waiting for? We are..
I know that in some circles, the furor over Advent versus Christmas music continues to rage. As is my conflict resolution style,..
My life before 2010: attend lecture, take notes, read, attend discussion group, pretend I understood the reading, take quiz, stress over exam,..
Guest commentary by Derek R. Davenport Black Friday is coming. It comes earlier each year. This year, some retailers are starting their..
When my friend, a Presbyterian pastor, was dying in the hospital, the last thing on my mind was his professional and personal..
Twenty-five years ago Stanley Hauerwas and William Willimon published “Resident Aliens” as a critique of mainline American Protestantism and as an ecclesial..
"Christian brotherhood is not an ideal which we must realize; it is rather a reality created by God in Christ in which..
Sermonize /ser-muh-niz/ (verb) 1. To compose or deliver a sermon. 2. To deliver an opinionated and dogmatic talk to someone. (Merriam Webster..
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