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Fruitful ministry becomes sustainable when it is shared, person to person and generation to generation.
Lament psalms typically move to trust at some point, but reading only those verses feels strange in Lent.
What should churches do about the treatment of “the Jews” in John?
“Each of the typical approaches has problems. The best solution would be to change the lectionary.”
Steve Thorngate interviews Amy-Jill Levine
What should churches do about the treatment of “the Jews” in John?
“Each of the typical approaches has problems. The best solution would be to change the lectionary.”
Steve Thorngate interviews Amy-Jill Levine
Things Pilate cannot touch: creative life, confounding power
by Brian Bantum
Divine absence and the light inaccessible
God isn't just hidden. God hides. Why?
Divine absence and the light inaccessible
God isn't just hidden. God hides. Why?
Sometimes it seems that the vine grower has prepared the vineyard and gone off to a remote island where things are warmer and nicer.
Many people are bound. Some don’t even know it. The difference between being free and being bound is at the center of our Gospel text this week.
It's 2016 and the problem of evil is still unsolved. It's found a megaphone in Stephen Fry, who offers more rhetorical power than originality.
It's 2016 and the problem of evil is still unsolved. It's found a megaphone in Stephen Fry, who offers more rhetorical power than originality.
The decline of mainline Protestantism is clear. What's less clear is what the church should do about it.
By Hardy Kim
The decline of mainline Protestantism is clear. What's less clear is what the church should do about it.
By Hardy Kim
As a second-generation Korean American, it is hard to identify stories from my past that can serve as reservoirs of understanding for my life now. “In you our ancestors trusted,” I could proclaim from those stories, “and you delivered them.”
by Hardy Kim
As a second-generation Korean American, it is hard to identify stories from my past that can serve as reservoirs of understanding for my life now. “In you our ancestors trusted,” I could proclaim from those stories, “and you delivered them.”
by Hardy Kim
"Poetry invites you to have an experience. It doesn't want you to drift away into inattention. It wants to grab you."
by Amy Frykholm
"Poetry invites you to have an experience. It doesn't want you to drift away into inattention. It wants to grab you."
by Amy Frykholm
"Poetry invites you to have an experience. It doesn't want you to drift away into inattention. It wants to grab you."
by Amy Frykholm