Church
Beginning to learn to be a pastor
Shortly after his ordination, a home visit unexpectedly throws a new pastor in the deep end.
Karl Barth’s gift to the church
Kimlyn Bender has produced a reading guide to assist nonspecialists.
A New Monastic community in a time of social distancing
The idea of this place is incarnation. When someone here gets sick, so does everyone else.
On the spirituality of quarantine
How can we be “witnesses to the ends of the earth” right now? I have found some help from St. Benedict and St. Gregory.
Is Filipino cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle really “the Asian Francis”?
The media portrays him as a progressive. It’s not that simple.
How dying churches abuse pastors
Gene Fowler examines why traumatized congregations so often attack their leaders.
How do we remember people killed by police?
Call their names. Tell their stories. Confess our role.
In this Easter season, words fail
After the resurrection, the disciples’ words failed too.
A congregation that spans the US-Mexico border
For more than a decade, Christians have worshiped together across the border wall.
How I learned to love worshiping via video call
I'm immunocompromised. My ability to attend worship has long been determined by the CDC.
Navigating the immigration labyrinth with two pastors facing deportation
We gathered in an ICE parking lot. Not to protest, but to show that we cared.
The coronavirus pandemic is exposing the myth of self-reliance
The people we deem invisible are holding us together right now.
Christianity’s explosive growth in Kenya
A nation’s rapid population growth and its complex religious impacts
Amid Detroit’s housing crisis, tiny homes offer residents new hope
A project that helps build pride, confidence, and community
Thinking about Good Friday during a pandemic
This year the Solemn Reproaches are speaking to me in a new way.
The church out in the world (Matthew 21:1-11)
In October of 1989, word came down from Moscow: the peace prayers in Leipzig must be stopped.
How mainline Protestants got involved in urban renewal
Mark Wild complicates the conventional account of postwar white flight.
On not getting used to this
My spiritual practices have long been communal ones. I love people—and their presence.
Four guidelines for improvising pastoral leadership through a pandemic
How do ministers lead in unnavigated territory? How do we hold out hope in the face of despair?