My friends who are skeptics are cynical about Christianity these days. From our intramural fights to our political collusion on both sides, it all looks

Cogito ergo sum, Descartes famously said, but sometimes I think recordor ergo sum might be more accurate. “I remember, therefore I am.” I have a

by Melody Meeter There are advantages to preaching from the lectionary. Think of millions of Christians, Protestant and Catholic, hearing the same texts on the

If We Could Spell by Chad Engbers This past spring, I took a group of students to George Herbert’s small parish church in Bemerton, a

High school students know how to play the game. The ones I taught knew what to say and when to say it. In class, I’d

The Millennials Have Spoken: NO MORE COMPACT DISCS!  by  Shane Versteeg I am a Generation X guy. A “GenXer.” Generation X population members are those

20km. Easy pace. One day of each week of my distance-cycling training schedule last summer recommended this – a 20 km ride at an easy

Recently I returned from leading a seminar for twenty-one pastors at Snow Mountain Ranch in Colorado.  On this particular seminar I was joined in leadership

Kate Bowler, historian and professor of American religious history at Duke Divinity School, published a piece in the New York Times called “What to Say