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What does your spiritual geography look like?
Just as I’ve come to appreciate how seasons transform the land, I’ve also become aware of my internal landscape. The two seem bound together in many ways.
Kim Lawton talks to clergy and seminarians at Occupy Wall Street
Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly's latest stories include an overview of the religious presence at the Occupy Wall Street protests at Zuccotti
Park in New York.
To dwell in possibility
When my daughter was confirmed in the Christian faith
last spring, I gave her Emily Dickinson's poem, "I dwell in Possibility."
Post-Wobegon politics: Michele Bachmann and the moral recession
Michele Bachmann's frontrunner moment may be past. But she has shown how the Republicans can win in the restless small towns of the swing-state Midwest.
UK churches seek action on tax avoidance
London, October 31 (ENInews)--Representatives from the United Kingdom's main Christian denominations and charities submitted a letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer (treasury secretary) on 31 O...
St. Paul's dean resigns, cites protest controversy
London, October 31 (ENInews)--The Rev. Graeme Knowles, dean of St....
Baptist school expels transgender student
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (ABP) – California Baptist University expelled a
transgender student who listed her gender as female on her application...
Seminaries look to update ministers’ skill set
For more than 200 years, Andover Newton Theological School has
trained future pastors to have expertise in biblical studies, pastoral...
Cardinal’s claim disputed by Catholic theologian
An unusual public dispute is brewing between Washington Cardinal
Donald Wuerl and a feminist theologian who essentially accused Wuerl of...
Supreme Court sidesteps issue of roadside crosses
The Supreme Court says it will not reopen a case in which a lower
court ruled that highway crosses memorializing Utah state troopers are
unconstitutional....
Freedom and accountability
Every pastor needs to address the issue of freedom and accountability. It's part of the pastor's role in nurturing a church community: neither a laissez-faire atmosphere nor a judicial one helps people grow as disciples.
Speaking to mourners: The evolution of funeral sermons
In 1983, Kenneth Mitchell and Herbert Anderson wrote that "death is only one form of loss." This would have been unthinkable for Christians half a century earlier.
Why we should celebrate Reformation Sunday
It's Reformation Sunday this week in Protestant circles, which for us
Lutherans means we're into the season of questioning the benefit of the...
In Christ, God calls all to reconciliation
God was in Christ,
proclaiming and demonstrating the good news of the kingdom (or commonwealth).
This new way of life challenges us to rethink everything in our lives that
resists reconciliation.
Within the African canon
Here is my unscientific rule: if Martin Luther treated a biblical book
with disdain, then that book is really popular in
modern Africa.