We come to Scripture with anticipation. We come with an openness to learn and to be challenged. We also come with assumptions..
a church with borderless borders like water strong and gentle clear and life-giving fluid and transforming where trees grow and children..
Guest commentary by Amy Cerniglia Lesbian Day of Visibility, marked annually on April 26, celebrates lesbians around the world. With this day..
“Sing to the Lord, for he is highly exalted. Both horse and rider he has hurled into the sea.” — Exodus 15:21..
The fruit of the Spirit in Galatians 5 is not presented as a random catalog of virtues. It is important to note..
I can still picture myself sitting in the pew of the United Methodist Church I grew up in, listening to my pastor..
We talk in circles about how the church is a place for connecting, a place for people to find community. And..
Guest commentary by Lea Sitton PHILADELPHIA — Even as the Board of Pensions of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) received a 2020 NACD..
This is an opportune time for the church to reflect on the fruit of the Spirit, as deep, angry partisanship and polarization..
In a year of lament, it is a challenge to find and celebrate joy. “What is your joy this year?” our church..
What will life and ministry look like in the post-pandemic church? Understandably, our conversations about this matter are often framed in terms..
Love is such a lovely word, gracious, spacious, capacious to a fault, embracing every blessed thing from those little smiley faces we..
Last year at the beginning of the pandemic, I brought home my potted succulents from my study at the church. I set..
Guest commentary by Pam McVety One of Latricia’s earliest memories is looking out a sliding glass door and wondering why everything looked..
A few months ago, I bought some tomatoes at the grocery store. My wife cut one open and discovered that..
My wife Lara’s podcast game is off the charts. At least that’s what I always tell her. I have this image of..
Several years ago, when I was a younger pastor, I drove an older parishioner to a medical appointment. The only other person..
Before this pandemic, when I’d think about the fruits of the Spirit, I would picture apples and bananas dotted with raindrops. Joy..
In memory of Martha Let me share the story of the worst Easter sermon I have ever preached. It was my..
Now, in early 2021, many people, including some who once doubted, know that the COVID-19 pandemic is deadly serious and distressingly..
Religious educator John Westerhoff invited us years ago to understand faith as a verb more than a noun. Westerhoff argued that persons..
Guest commentary by Lea Sitton Everyone has experienced loss and sadness and faced personal challenges during the coronavirus crisis. But pastors have..
I embarked on a new call in August, moving to a new city during the depths of the pandemic lockdown. As I..
I was a guest preacher a few months ago in these weird days of this in-between time. No one was there. I..
“We are not alone. We live in God’s world.” These words open the United Church of Canada’s affirmation of faith, known..
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