We greet you with great hopes for our denomination and with gratitude for the privilege of serving as your co-moderators. By the..
When caring for persons who are living with a serious life-limiting illness such as cancer, we as pastors, chaplains and caregivers encounter..
Her head was wrapped in a bright orange and yellow tie-dyed scarf, a material that looked silky and shiny. The dark..
“In life and in death we belong to God. And life is a gift to be received with gratitude and a task..
My cancer story, like many others, started with a routine check-up. I turned 40 and dutifully scheduled my first mammogram. With..
Is there any other word in our language that causes the same emotional reaction as does the word cancer? To even say..
The idea is deceptively simple. When someone is diagnosed with cancer – a diagnosis that often overloads the mind and heart with..
Society generally views technology through a rational lens, judging technological products only insofar as they enhance convenience, or provide some new capability...
How do we make faithful sense amidst the racket and discord of digital media? How do we “pay attention” in these spaces?..
Ministry with young people is irreducibly technological. Perhaps it has never not been so (after all, Paul’s letters to young Timothy employed..
In her fantastic new book, “Liturgy of the Ordinary,” Tish Harrison Warren describes an all-too-common dynamic of life in the digital age:..
What comes to mind when you hear Russia? Do you think of the tsars: Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great, Catherine the..
Dorika (15) and Kanyere (16) became child mothers after sexual assault and are juggling to care for their infants while finishing..
Education provides an opportunity to step beyond ethnic distrust, a seemingly never-ending war and the lack of past opportunities. It can change..
In 2017, Presbyterian World Mission celebrates 180 years of international mission service. Although the desire to serve has never changed, the..
Every immigrant fellowship in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has its own story – from the Bible study that started meeting in..
Wafa Goussous is director of the Jordan office of the Middle East Council of Churches and of the Orthodox Initiative of the..
There are bridges that need to be repaired. Some are too worn out to be safe; yet every day we depend..
Hope in the midst of violence. Aid to refugees. Spreading the message of Christ in ancient lands. This is just some..
Jordan seems to be clinging to our consciousness in the news cycles of late. The mother hen to thousands of refugees...
When Leslie Newbigin served as the Bishop of Madras, India, visiting pastors, theologians and denominational leaders rang at his door for a..
Guarding a grave is hardly the most lively way to spend this early springtime night, or serve almighty Rome. Why would anyone..
When I graduated from seminary in the spring of 1982, I had never heard of family systems theory. I began a degree..
Theology is what God is up to in God’s creation. Economics is how God’s household organizes itself in response to God’s..
Sociologist Fred Block believes it’s time to take economic fundamentalism down from its pedestal. In his article “Confronting Economic Fundamentalism” (published in..
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