Lillian Daniel
Leaving Church
In her first book, The Preaching Life, Barbara Brown Taylor delighted readers with a seamless sewing together of divinity school memories...
New-car smell: Intimations of heaven
When you get to the car lot, you have a decision to make—which way should you go?...
Called and sent out: Congregations that nurture future ministers
One day we woke up and saw that they were everywhere....
Lost in transition
In 2001 Barbara Ehrenreich opened people’s eyes to the life of America’s working poor with her provocative bestseller ...
Can we be friends? Pastor-parish relationships: Pastor-parish relationships
Now concerning the love of brothers and sisters, you do not need to have anyone write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another . . ....
Where I'm at Sunday: The church year, new and improved
Treasuring the freedom that allows us to honor our unique traditions and keep up with the times, we propose these special Sundays in the church year and offer accompanying liturgical resources:
...Class issues: An extracurricular education
At the opening gathering during my first year at Yale Divinity School, the new students met in the beautiful chapel, with its tall ceilings and clear congregational-style windows....
Uneasy partners
My Easter Sunday sermon preparation was interrupted this year by a two-hour emergency meeting at a local ...
Hidden pursuits
What do migrant strawberry pickers, marijuana growers and Internet pornography users have in common?...
Captain America and the Crusade Against Evil, by Robert Jewett and John Shelton Lawrence
People remember where they were on September 11. It's a date so emblazoned on our memories that we don't need to mark it by year....
Tilting right
Last September over 700 hundred people were arrested in the largest civil disobedience in New Haven, Connecticut, that anyone could remember....
Portraits of the poor
Surviving in a Material World. By Ronald Paul Hill. University of Notre Dame Press, 175 pp., $22.95.
...Foolish belonging: 1 Corinthians 1:10-18
In the United States, it is rare to hear someone define herself as belonging to someone else. Here, we belong to ourselves.
Grand introductions: Isaiah 49:1-7; John 1:29-42
When members of my family introduce someone, they always give that person an automatic promotion. If she’s a doctor, they will exaggerate, introducing her as a brilliant surgeon....
A french-fry culture
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal. By Eric Schlosser. Houghton Mifflin, 342 pp., $25.00.
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