This year’s General Assembly presents an unprecedented opportunity for commissioners to take decisive action that can benefit God’s creation and all of God’s children.
We took 10 minutes to eat a raisin because we were trying to eat mindfully. I held the raisin in my hand,..
I taught my first confirmation class in 1987. Twenty-five eighth graders explored the Apostles' Creed for nine months! On Pentecost 1988, all..
Recently, we published an article by Joshua P. Kerr about how, after two years of pandemic leadership, he is struggling to find his..
In my first year of ordained ministry, a long-time member I served didn't like me. I never figured out exactly what the..
When I imagine my anger, I imagine myself in fatigues, right hand snapped to attention. As I stand there, knees slightly bent,..
I will never forget the emotional weight of suspending worship services and shutting down our church building when COVID came to Oklahoma...
In “A nation on hold wants to speak with a manager,” journalist Sarah Lyall describes the way people currently fly off the..
Today’s problems require collective solutions, but the American church is not answering the call. The Adam McKay satirical film “Don’t Look Up”..
Family and friends, we live in extraordinary times. The pandemic wilderness of Greek alphabet variant soup is palpable and unrelenting. The global..
“I’m not some crazy angry person,” I said through tears as the urgent care nurse stitched up the wounds on my hand.
“The silent majority” and the “despair of White rural Appalachia” are two of our least favorite expressions from the past few years...
God of Holy Anger, We are grateful to belong to a God who has demonstrated a robust emotional life. We confess that..
On Sunday, I clocked a window. I whirled around and slammed it with the back of my fist. My right fist. The..
One can have perfect vision and fail to see what really matters. Sometimes it seems as though it takes a miracle to see all the way to the heart of things. That's what we see on the road to Emmaus, writes Ronald Byars.
Chelsea Ebin, who researches the radical Right political movement, articulates the history of political rage in America.
Those head bindings rolled and laid aside in a separate place, the way the sympathetic gardener gently calls her by her name,..
Eliza C. Jaremko looks at Mary the Mother of God and Mary the sister of Martha in the resurrection narrative.
It seems that John has a problem with names here: “The one whom Jesus loved” is never named, but is simply called,..
I recently read Abby Norman’s You Can Talk to God That Way. It is a book on embracing lament as a spiritual..
Even during our “Judas moments,” there is goodness and mercy.
Katy Shevel contemplates Christ's descent into hell on Holy Saturday through the lens of Ludwig van Beethoven's "Ode to Joy."
One year ago, I was in a hospital room with my wife and my new daughter. She had been out of the..
John 13's foot-washing scene leads Aaron Neff to remember people who have hurt and betrayed him. “Love them anyway,” Jesus says.
This morning as I rose late with no reason not I found myself discovering the beauty of making the bed. Every motion..
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