They are friends, neighbors and fellow church members. Classmates, colleagues and relatives. But who are these people we have longed loved but struggle now to understand? We have cared for …
It is a troubling dilemma. They are friends, neighbors, fellow church members and family. Some we’ve known well — or thought we did — for decades. Now we face the …
Many of us have those spiritual punctuation marks in our lives that allow for remembering beyond mere recollection. They serve as points of return, refocus and reorientation. At least they …
We were warned to not go along with the crowd. By the very people we just watched go along with the crowd. Their overwhelming support of a strategic assault on …
Here is a simple and proven three-step guide for politicians seeking the support of hordes of white professing Christians. It is very effective. First, create enemies out of vulnerable people. …
Sunday afternoon gatherings of extended family — and a friend or two who might need a family — had no firm starting time. Factors included the length of the sermon …
Hard yet important questions of faith don’t often surface where they should. In fact, church buildings often provide the safest rooms for elephants to gather incognito. Ignoring such questions, however, …
A major distraction from following Jesus — the primary calling of the Christian faith, supposedly — is how and how much attention is given to Jesus’ death — with an …
In the golden days of hymns we sang, “We will follow the steps of Jesus where’er they go.” Then in the early days of choruses we sang, “I have decided …
Holding firmly to one’s beliefs was among the earliest edicts in the faith tradition that nurtured me. That was bad advice. It was built on the false notion that we …
