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The community Thanksgiving service would be at the Southern Baptist church that year, but it was Madeline's church's turn to supply the preacher.

I am weak in him. This week I mailed a few dozen invitations to a meeting about a mission trip, a trip few people are interested in. I wonder if the trip will need to be canceled. I am a disciple who has fished all night and caught little.

New today from the Century: Ellen Blue's latest "Case by Case" ministry scenario, Daniel Schultz reviews Jim Naughton and Rebecca Wilson.

How can churches and other religious institutions speak effectively to let the world know that something is happening with church people that they might want to be a part of?

Armenia is a nation of 3.3 million in a territory a fourth the size of Pennsylvania. Its small scale belies a much larger ancient reality.

I can’t quit thinking about Yakub. In my purse I have a print clipping that includes a photo of the 12-year-old boy staring into the camera with a copy of Steve Jobs’s biography held high over his head. I pull it out from time to time and imagine Yakub at work.

New today from the Century: Philip Jenkins on Armenia's survivors, Frank Honeycutt remembers WIll Campbell, more.

Campbell got into trouble in lots of different ways. As a seminarian, I was particularly impressed that he dared to drink whiskey with the Klan.

The Song of Songs is about cherishing everything that makes another human being distinctive. It's the opposite of indiscriminate violence.