Collective effervescence, couldn’t we use it to describe the electric feeling of all sorts of communal experiences?

The two denominations have “turned corners” in different directions. We can only hope that their divergence will not return them to their old estrangement.

The behind-the-scenes question that we’re chasing after is “what can it look like to live faithfully as Jesus’ disciples here and now?

The immigration officer told him he should probably change his name from Christ Flak to something else, lest he take a lot of flak in

He had written in my mid-year evaluation that my preaching was, and I am quoting directly, “pitiful.”

You’d think my most joyful moments would be some epiphany in a worship, at a retreat, or on a mission project. But, no, it happened

My husband greeted me with an unexpected statement: “I’m pretty sure I heard meowing in our attic at about midnight last night.”

Theology is not learned simply by listening to it — but by singing it, speaking it, and embodying it in worship.

Brené Brown sometimes defines humility with this sentence: I’m not here to be right, I’m here to get it right.

He asked, “So, do you have a group to deal with all that pain?” When I didn’t speak, he said, “Well you do now.”

Someone had placed a tomato cage over the smooth dirt that hid the turtle’s carefully prepared nest.

Of course, we never met. Bob is three years older than I am, closer to my sister’s age. He went to Catholic school.