Category: Articles

To Make and Be at Home

Do you know where you are going to be buried or who will be buried alongside you? Great numbers of people no longer know how

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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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