L. Gregory Jones

Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition, by Christine Pohl

We are coming to the close of the season of HallowThanksMas. It begins the last week of October and extends until Christmas Day....

We buried a fine teacher the other day. He was not a scintillating lecturer, nor was he a particularly exciting person....

The rabbi put the question to my friend directly: Do Christians believe that God is holy?" My friend was initially taken aback; she thought of the popularity of the hymn "Holy, Holy, Holy," and of ...

Our hosts in Estonia were somberly describing the challenges they faced in maintaining a Christian presence throughout the Soviet era....

During my first year of teaching, I learned the hazards of asking college seniors their postgraduation plans....

I just want my child to be happy." Parents say this so often that it has become an accepted explanation for why a child is doing something other than what the parents would have hoped. And, in one ...

Let's face it," my clergy friend said to me....

Hans Christian Andersen tells about an emperor who was so fond of new clothes that he spent all his money on them....

Would you come and lead a series of classes on sexuality, drawing particularly on our denomination's statement on sexuality?" Such was the request from the leader of a congregation's adult Sunday s...

A seminary student and I were walking around the lake on a beautiful evening. We had begun the walk in part for exercise, and in part because he wanted to talk about his vocation....

A pastor calls the kids to the altar rail for yet another children's sermon and says: "I am thinking of something that is brown, has a bushy tail, and every fall gathers acorns to itself....

I have often been compared to my father. Though I neither look nor sound like him, I seem to have his temperament, some of his intellectual gifts and some of his vices....

What Bill Clinton and others like him don't understand is that sexual escapades always bring more trouble than they are worth. It is fidelity that makes you happy," my friend said....

Jonesboro, Paducah, Springfield. These towns have become synonymous with random youth killings in schools....

We were driving home from soccer practice. I was talking with my 11-year-old son about his team and the drills they had done that evening....