On a Saturday afternoon late last spring, the Des Moines Gay Men’s Chorus presented a concert in our church. For most of their performance, unstoppable
It’s Holy Saturday, the day before the Big Event, also known as Easter. I am with my younger daughter, who asks me over morning coffee
I am chair of our regional synod’s Judicial Business Committee. For the uninitiated, that’s a small team of pastors and elders who handle the business
A friend of mine here in Oman wears a T-shirt with a quote from J.R.R. Tolkien, “Not all who wander are lost.” One of the
These are strange times for anyone in ministry. They’re especially difficult for people in youth ministry. Andrew Root’s The End of Youth Ministry?: Why Parents
In May, 1999, Lewis B. Smedes published an essay in Perspectives titled “Like the Wideness of the Sea?” The article made quite a splash in
Who remembers church on New Years Eve? In the Black Church, Watch Night celebrated the Emancipation Proclamation.
Moore’s critics (and some defenders, too) nearly melt down Twitter after pictures surface of her serving communion in her new church.
What informs today’s White Evangelicals? Theology or Culture? Scripture or Tradition? David French explores.
