I wonder, sometimes, if in our abstract commitments to justice, we jump from one cause to another, without learning to love and appreciate the people
As it turns out, for all the struggles we have paying bills, repairing aging buildings, dealing with consistory meetings, and dealing with the dwindling numbers
After the disruptions of Covid and denominational disaffiliation, how do I help a fragile church community hold together?
The opening words of Lanta Davis’ Becoming by Beholding: The Power of the Imagination in Spiritual Formation led me to expect a much different kind
Much of the data on our readers can be filed under “Everything you think you know is wrong.” I tend to think the same faithful
We should say that the biblical witness regarding anger is complicated. My working theory is that getting good and mad might be exactly what God
Fredrick reflects on the changes he witnessed from the Iowa of his childhood to Iowa now with its massive industrial farms, gutted small towns, and
From this saga we can glean hope’s core ingredient. There are the predictable humility and gratitude but also the less predictable humor, play, and joy.
