These days, we've rediscovered the language of spiritual warfare. The warfare metaphor is used whenever the church undergoes a tough season. The culture in North America has turned against the church. The social contract that ...
Does faith in Jesus call women to stay with an abusive husband, men to mutilate themselves, and all of us to take a vow of poverty?
The teachings of Jesus in passages like those below have been interpreted in this way, although the ...
Table as the way out of crisis
As images of the quarantined passengers and crew aboard the cruise ship Diamond Princess filled our living room television in February 2020, I experienced a feeling of nebulous foreboding. I distinctly ...
Pastoring During a Crisis: Managing Transition
- Rev. Dr. Amanda Hecht
The book of Acts tells the story of an early church that was often in transition due to one crisis or another. The coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost led ...
Rhonda
She always brought kids’ socks and stuffed animals to church. She crunched on ice cubes during the service like popcorn at the movies. She always sat in the third row of a 1,000-person auditorium, and every Sunday she ...
Leading Staff Through a Crisis
“Ok, last item on the agenda. Let’s talk through what we are going to do if the Coronavirus starts to impact our area.” Our staff had spent three hours in our semi-annual planning meeting, ...
O Lord,
make us have perpetual love and reverence for your holy Name,
for you never fail to help and govern those whom you have set upon the sure foundation of your loving-kindness;
through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns ...
David George Moore
It’s been my privilege to be in the personal spaces of several writers. Among others, Pulitzer winner Tony Horwitz warmly welcomed me at his home on Martha’s Vineyard as did William F. Buckley at his ...
A big day for us: Graduation at Northern Seminary.
(Reuters) — Some might cringe, but at one Maryland chocolate shop, 17-year-old insects are flying off the shelves.Sarah Dwyer, of Chouquette Chocolates in Bethseda, started ...
Increasing Capacity
Most of us are familiar with the story of the professor who fills a container with large rocks and asks the students if the container is full. Of course, the students say. You can’t get another rock in the ...
