Category: Articles

Paying Attention

Attentiveness is in short supply these days. Perhaps more accurately, attentiveness is rarely practiced anymore. There just isn’t much social demand for it. Consider our

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New Monastics in Politics

Shane Claiborne is the de facto leader of the “New Monasticism,” a movement predominantly among young adults who have forsaken the trappings of middle-class comfort

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God With Us

A new year has dawned. Advent and Christmas services are over, presents have been opened, the tree is at least mostly put away, and we

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Communion in Red

As I help uncover the communion elements, I see a flash of red out of the corner of my eye. I am new to serving

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On Legalized Gambling

Who would have expected that a lesson in promoting public morality would come to us from Russia, the heart of what the great communicator, Ronald

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Why Not Belhar?

Over the past two years I have struggled a great deal whether to support the adoption of the Belhar Confession or not. Part of me

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Joyful Theology

A few weeks ago the third volume of the Collected Works of A.A. van Ruler arrived in my mailbox. It was an important moment for

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