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Youth ministry isn’t about fun
How one youth leader stopped being a chief counselor of fun and discovered something better.
10 guidelines for pastoral care during the coronavirus outbreak
How can we accompany people through this valley of anxiety, fear, and death?
John Henry Newman’s impact
Eamon Duffy’s short biography of the first English saint canonized since the Reformation
Following the suffering Christ
Discipleship-as-self-improvement doesn’t much resemble the way of Jesus.
Death toll rises in Delhi anti-Muslim riots
At least 24 people were killed and 189 injured in three days of clashes in New Delhi that coincided with President Donald Trump’s first state visit to India, with the death toll expected to rise as...
UMC theological e-Academy is ‘game changer’ in Eastern Africa
United Methodist theological colleges in East Africa now can deliver education at a distance....
Bernie Sanders visits prominent black church before Super Tuesday
In a visit to one of North Carolina’s most prominent African American churches, Sen. Bernie Sanders scored big points talking about poverty in the United States....
Supreme Court to hear dispute between Catholic nonprofit, same-sex foster parents
On February 24, the Supreme Court said it will hear a dispute over a Philadelphia Catholic agency that won’t place foster children with same-sex couples, a big test of religious rights under a more...
Honduran woman who sought sanctuary in a church will not be deported
For nearly two years Rosa del Carmen Ortez-Cruz took sanctuary from deportation at the Church of Reconciliation, not knowing if she would ever be able to emerge from her confinement....
Southern Baptist leader Russell Moore faces investigation for anti-Trump comments
The Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee will launch a task force to examine the activities of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, the convention’s public policy organiz...
Why I'm grieving Elizabeth Warren’s exit
Unlike Hillary Clinton’s defeat in 2016, Warren’s defeat came at the hands of her own party.
A spot for Lent (Psalm 121; John 3:1-17)
As we spin through our to-do lists, we can lose sight of our spot that orients our life: our faith.
A spot for Lent (Psalm 121; John 3:1-17)
As we spin through our to-do lists, we can lose sight of our spot that orients our life: our faith.
In Europe, church taxes are voluntary. People pay them anyway.
But for how long?
L’Arche’s values of accompaniment, vulnerability, and mutuality are bigger than Jean Vanier
Such values have shadow sides. They are also desperately needed in the world.
Can Lent help prepare us for a pandemic?
I got my two weeks of groceries. But the CDC offers no wisdom on preparing the soul.
Dorothy Sayers and her equally fascinating friends
How they engaged culture in troubling times