The importance of asking big questions (and listening to the answers)
We can’t expect people to change their views, but we can learn about others, and ourselves, by just listening.
Asking for help: no small challenge
Trouble develops when we become convinced that we can address our problems alone or when we’re too embarrassed or ashamed to share with others our [...]
And Yet, Your Heavenly Father Feeds Them
The collective practice of love involves receiving care just as much as giving it.
The Word that transforms lives and our mission in the world
The message of Frederick Douglass is that the Bible transforms lives and draws us deeper into ministry in the world.
What do you do in life?
Each one of us must determine when and whether to speak openly about our faith to people who may be hostile to it.
Necessity, the mother of invention (even in the church)
The church needs to try new things and be free to explore creative new pathways. Yet, like many other institutions, it can be bound by [...]
What’s interesting about religion and the church?
In the midst of conversations about the future of this institution or the decline of that congregation, it is astonishingly easy to miss the point. [...]
God amidst the surf
What are the opportunities for me to meet God in surprising, unexpected, and unusual ways?
Praying for Christian unity
Why should you care about Christian unity? It’s a question worth asking in this week, the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.
Outside church walls
What do you find in our liturgies that can reshape your life—and the lives of others—outside the church walls?