What is a church’s money for?
As a pastor, I am both grateful for our congregation’s healthy endowment and distressed by it. I don’t think I’m alone.
Ambition used to be a vice
Now we tend to see it as a virtue—at least for some people.
A visit to the Hava NaGrilla Smoke BBQ Festival in Philadelphia
Hope smells like barbecue.
The preacher is a chef who prepares a meal
Like good cooking, good preaching is local, idiosyncratic, and diverse.
Which new books deserve a spot under the Christmas tree?
We asked our contributing editors to each pick two.
Episode 49: Mary Poppins
Adam and Matt welcome back the practically perfect Becca Messman to talk ministry and Mary Poppins.
Episode 48: Midnight Special (LIVE at Mo Ranch)
Matt and Adam take the show on the road and discuss Jeff Nichols's Midnight Special at Mo Ranch in Texas.
Episode 47: Won't You Be My Neighbor
Matt and Adam invite Laurel Koepf Taylor to talk children, ministry, and the new Fred Rogers documentary Won't You Be My Neighbor?
The Museum of the Bible is utterly inoffensive. The Bible is not.
Can artifacts and interactive exhibits ever do justice to scripture's wildness?
Can we talk about marijuana at church?
A Bible-belt Presbyterian woman thinks her THC cookies are benefiting her. She also thinks she can't tell anyone.
Mystery and ministry in Grantchester and beyond
Detectives, like pastors, examine the unknowable to reveal the knowable.
Run the Jewels and the burden of prophecy
What counts as truth in a post-truth world? Run the Jewels 3 makes the case that truth sounds like rap music.
Ta-Nehisi Coates stewards a story
The new Black Panther series uses genre conventions to say something true.
The meeting in the sanctuary and the meeting in the basement
In opioid country, churches get to know their recovery communities.