Sometimes a congregation decides to sell all or part of its property because it needs the money. And sometimes the decision to..
When my family moved to Charlottesville, Virginia, we purchased the only house that was available in our price range. After moving..
“Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from..
“These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having..
I was working with a refugee ministry in Europe when I moved back to the U.S. to attend a Presbyterian seminary. Then..
Why am I writing about typewriters when you are supposed to write on them? At least that is what people used..
I am a recovering first born, a recovering Martha and a recovering “human doing” who is learning to be a human being...
The Pandora app turns your car into a time machine. The app lets you create your own radio station. You don’t..
“Go outside. Look up. Secret of life.” – Anne Lamott My wife and I are raising our children only about 30 miles..
Garfield Street, Washington, D.C. My mother is standing in the doorway of her bedroom. Then she turns to the bureau to fold..
Author’s note: This is a work of fiction. However, “Connecting Grace” is a real initiative of Johnson C. Smith Theological Seminary, in..
I learned to run by chasing my father. To wait on a front stoop with laced shoes was to demand entrance into..
It was Sunday morning and there we were, clustered together, in a little church on the south side of Chicago. We were..
I write this from the passenger seat of Jill Duffield’s car. On the dashboard a plastic Jesus bobs, his palms lifted upwards..
By most popular North American accounts, the European church is dying. Old, tired and running out of energy. Soon the last..
It started simply enough: I would take a couple of seminary classes and if I liked them, I’d take a couple more...
“How’s seminary?” I used to cringe at this query posed by those who thought they were asking a simple, innocuous question. During..
Treading carefully on a rippled and rifted sidewalk, I passed toothless pumpkins that grinned in the pre-dawn light. Once poured to provide..
I am back in an active search for another position. It has been 20 years since I was in the call process..
David Lee Jones explores how “parking lot meetings” reveal deeper issues of maturity, communication, and conflict in church leadership, using Bowen’s family systems theory.
It all started with a sign. One year after the fatal shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, The Episcopal Church of..
"And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations." (Revelation 22:2) “A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation..
Robert Hedges, a Presbyterian minister who leads the Resurrection Power recovery ministry in Washington, Pennsylvania, describes the work he does as “the..
I was baptized as infant in a white clapboard church in the rural Canadian Rocky Mountains. The week before I received the..
Andrew slid up to the table to speak to the chaplain at the Travel Center of America (TA) in Columbia, New Jersey...
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