November 2017

Lord, are you the one? Who summons a friend when darkness descends and hope is lost, and we need someone to talk to?

Eugene Peterson served as the pastor of Christ Our King Presbyterian Church in Bel Air, Md., for 29 years.

Love conquers fear.

Since doing justice involves systemic issues, it often enters the sphere of political laws and policies.

Quick question: what do a skunk’s stripes, a sheep’s wool, a walrus’s whiskers, and a porcupine’s quills all have in common?

Exit West is a love story set in a not-too-distant future that is recognizable as a projection of our present unsettling times.

We do not have many children in our church. Our volunteers are wondering if it is worth their time and the church’s resources to have a Sunday school class with only one or two children.

Do you know someone who will be missing those summer nighttime fireflies? 

Thank you for publishing “The Emotional Lives of Men”.

In the final weeks of my mom’s life, she made me a promise.

When new people come to my church, I am nervous their presence will change what I like about my church. Any advice?

In my retirement I am pastoring a Presbyterian congregation.

When 12-year-old Jessie and her family rent an old cottage for six weeks in a remote area, she finds a wooden platform—a dilapidated raft—floating on the nearby murky body of water ominously named Quicksand Pond.

Sandra McCracken has been making music in the public eye since 2000

Aventurine is bored with the family caverns, tired of learning, and ready to try her wings in the outside world.

After three years of college, Finn Murphy gave up his studies to work full time as a mover.

Living in the shadow of her older sister,

A few years ago my wife and I took a five-week road trip.

Many people have heard about the need for foster parents. But probably fewer have thought much about the needs of foster parents.

When a major event effectively puts an end to electricity in the world, society begins to collapse.

“it seems that people are neither hearing each other nor letting each other be heard,”

While I appreciate the desire to include everyone, sometimes our services suffer because of inexperienced or unskilled musicians.

Eleanor Davis is a comic artist who enjoys cycling. She challenged herself to ride a bike from her parents’ home in Tucson, Ariz., to her home in Georgia, a trip of 1,800 miles.

Glenys Nellist’s picture book is based on the structure and cadence of Dr. Clement C. Moore’s famous poem “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas,”...