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..
Neil DeGrasse Tyson, as host of NOVA’s Science Now series, wears a funny vest and says profound things. Isn’t that kind of..
Guest commentary by Jennie Langham The knock at the door, the knock one never expects, the knock that only comes to other..
Guest commentary from William Yoo Recent encounters with students at my seminary and members of my church and presbytery remind me of..
A few months ago, I wondered in a blog post, Shall the Fundamentalists win? We Presbyterians tend to have allergic reactions to..
Guest commentary from Leanna Fuller Two weeks ago, well-known pastor Mark Driscoll resigned from Mars Hill Church, a Seattle-based mega-church. Whether or..
I have often wondered if, in the two days following Christ’s crucifixion, Peter and James and John – the three whom Jesus..
As I finish my Clinical Pastoral Education residency, I've been working as a pulpit supply preacher for Park View Christian Church, a..
As moderator of the 221st General Assembly of the PC(USA), I am having the remarkable privilege of traveling the country and meeting..
The children’s time is the hardest part of worship. I stress about making that message meaningful far more than I worry about..
Of all of the mythical ways to grow a church (Start a contemporary worship service! Call a pastor with a young family!..
Guest commentary from Todd McCoy Perhaps many of you have been pondering the same question I have: “Given the ongoing polarization of..
I was at a presbytery meeting recently, and, because all of our options for childcare fell through, I brought my 10-year-old son..
In 1 Corinthians 8, Paul urges the church to take care lest their liberty (the liberty to eat food offered to idols..
For a long time I didn’t think I was a very creative person because most of the creative people I knew were..
“How big of a cardboard tree could you make for VBS this year?” I love questions like this! As a pastor, creative-type..
A guest blog by Melissa DeRosia and Shannon Meacham Shannon: It was November 2010 when I stood in the pulpit of..
I recalled these familiar words from “Kung Fu Panda” as I was touring the facility of a church pastored by a colleague in a..
In a small house in Portsmouth, Virginia, we sat next to her as she lay in a hospital bed in her dining..
I would love this to be one of those articles whose title is a misnomer – an article that claims it is..
Nothing brings me more joy than to transform the sanctuary into the new, exciting location in which our VBS will take place…..
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