Living in New Orleans, it is easy to experience and witness moments of joy and sadness every day. This dichotomy makes..
Genesis 1: John 1 Before the time when time was kept, The earth was empty, dark and deep. Across the wrinkled waters..
Recently, two of my friends surprised me by flying my twin sister out on my birthday weekend to celebrate. We are identical..
When Leslie Newbigin served as the Bishop of Madras, India, visiting pastors, theologians and denominational leaders rang at his door for a..
Why not make every day your Easter Victory? Free yourself from the fear of human mortality. “Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for..
Last fall, I attended the DisGrace Conference on racism at Montreat Camp and Conference Center in North Carolina. The conference continues to..
Guarding a grave is hardly the most lively way to spend this early springtime night, or serve almighty Rome. Why would anyone..
I recently visited Mt. Vernon, George Washington’s family home. Since that visit I have been thinking a lot about a particular scene..
Guest commentary by Joyce Munro To the young mother who let me get behind the steering wheel that day while you sat..
As a companion to our spring book issue, we asked our bloggers about their experiences of writing as a spiritual practice. Here..
As a companion to our spring book issue, we asked our bloggers about their experiences of writing as a spiritual practice. Here..
As a companion to our spring book issue, we asked our bloggers about their experiences of writing as a spiritual practice. Here..
As a companion to our spring book issue, we asked our bloggers about their experiences of writing as a spiritual practice. Here..
Guest commentary by Albert G. Butzer Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude...
In the Faerie Tale Theater version of Cinderella, which I watched innumerable times as a child, Jean Stapleton plays the Fairy Godmother...
When I graduated from seminary in the spring of 1982, I had never heard of family systems theory. I began a degree..
Every. Month. Every month I sit down with my budget, my bank account statements and my credit card statements. I’m into my..
Have you ever noticed how matter-of-fact Risen Jesus is with those who first encounter him? He says to the women in Matthew,..
I occasionally dream about church. I mean literal in-the-night-while-I’m-sleeping dreams. Dream experts say we all dream in our sleep, quite a lot..
Don’t you sell ads? Doesn’t the cost of my subscription pay for the magazine? Doesn’t the denomination partially fund the Outlook? The..
Guest commentary by Carlton Johnson On April 3, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. shared what was, in my opinion, his most powerful..
Theology is what God is up to in God’s creation. Economics is how God’s household organizes itself in response to God’s..
Money is always a story. It is a story of where we’ve come from. It is a story about where we’re..
Sociologist Fred Block believes it’s time to take economic fundamentalism down from its pedestal. In his article “Confronting Economic Fundamentalism” (published in..
STARTING POINT: THE NEED TO BECOME PARTNERS AGAIN The worlds of theology and economics, of churches and business, of faith and the..
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