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The Great (and holy) War
In the popular World War I protest jingle “I Didn’t Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier,” a hear...
Just War as Christian Discipleship: Recentering the Tradition in the Church Rather than the State
In the foreword to Just War as Christian Discipleship, Lieutenant Colon...
A Book of Silence
Introverts who read Sara Maitland’s new book about silence may need to recommit themselves to the commandment not to covet....
Augustine and the Cure of Souls: Revising a Classical Ideal
Hegel once said that the modern world began when we exchanged morning prayer for the morning newspaper....
American Saint: Francis Asbury and the Methodists
Several years ago, my daughter, who is a Methodist pastor, received an appointment to a small charge in North Carolina’s tobacco country....
Two cities
Gordon Lathrop evokes Gerard Manley Hopkins when he speaks of the “gear, tackle and trim of pastoral ...
This just in: Heather has two daddies
Sunday was Father’s Day, and the White House issued the standard presidential pro...
Notes From No Man's Land, by Eula Biss
Two years ago, blogger Christian Lander struck satiric gold by chronicling the interests and motivations of white people....
What do you believe?
While out of town on a recent Sunday morning I found my way to a Lutheran church for worship....
Exile
People today often speak of a world that has changed dramatically. The
old pillars of morality, values and truth seem to have shifted....
A place to mourn: Grateful for the church
I was out of the country recently when a member of my congregation died. When this happens I feel the pain of being unable to do anything helpful, and a little guilt as well....
Borderline solutions? Systemic problems: Systemic problems
President Obama said earlier this spring that the political climate wasn’t right in this election year to work on immigration reform....
Century Marks
Value of words: President Obama reported that royalties from his two books—Dreams from My Father and The Audacity of Hope—netted between $2 million and $10 million in 2009. Vice President Joseph Biden’s 2007 memoir, Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics, brought in somewhere between nothing and $200 in 2009 (Christian Science Monitor, May 18).
Methodist megachurch has deep pockets for Darfur: Congregation has given millions
It’s often hard to find signs of hope in Sudan’s Western Darfur province, which is considered one of the bleakest places on the planet....
UMC study proposes ending 'guaranteed' clergy jobs: A culture of mediocrity
United Methodist clergy have long had the guarantee of paid assignments in a pulpit or other ministries, but an interim study is recommending that the denomination’s 2012 General Conference end the...
Editor decries Pentecostal shrugs over moral failures: J. Lee Grady of Charisma
Four years ago, after Ted Haggard confessed to involvement in a gay sex and drug scandal, he lost his Colorado Springs pulpit and his job as head of the National Association of Evangelicals and un...