Thank you to Roxanne Van Farowe for her article “#ChurchToo: Lessons from Willow Creek.” I have worked independently...
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Will anyone want the mantel clock?
I made profession of faith many years ago as a young teenager, but it was group pressure that made me do it.
Psalm 137 is, for me, the prayer in the Bible that most accurately expresses the extreme rage that comes with the experience or observation of the world’s worst abuses
It’s as if my whole life I’ve been trying to learn a language, and it wasn’t until I started to write that I could finally speak it.
The answer to this question is all about the Holy Spirit.
Does legalized cannabis help me to better love and serve God and my neighbor?
This man got a pair of gloves, and I got a blessing. I think I came out ahead.
From beginning to end, Our World Belongs to God testifies that God is fully present and involved in our lives.
Deciding to take it all on doesn’t convey a healthy trust in God’s provision, or trust in others to be the elbows while I focus on being the spleen (to stretch a biblical metaphor).
It is a mistake to assume that just because a lesson is for young children it can be theologically neutral.
Here’s one way to practice being thankful every day!
I was taught to obey police officers, but they didn’t play a large role in my life.
To me the five points of Calvinism articulated in the Canons of Dort summarize some wonderfully assuring teachings from Scripture.
Here are six films, from the very old to the recent, that are worth watching.
On the one hand, some connections are established more easily and quickly now that the smartphone replaced the telephone...
I was a synodical delegate in 2016 and 2017 and a member of the subcommittee that authored the recommendations referenced by Clayton Libolt in his article...
Good theology is not simply about faithfulness and accuracy to God’s Word but must include a wise and loving use of God’s Word.
According to one polyamory website, a polyamorous relationship is “a romantic relationship where the people in the relationship agree that it’s okay for everyone to be open to or have other romantic partners.”
A re-think of the role and place of servanthood and leadership in the church is long overdue.
Loving small means doing small things, helpful things, things not all that striking, but doing them with great love.
Three or four years ago, I started to notice people beginning their spoken sentences with “so...”
Being biblical is only possible if our goal is to be a faithful and dynamic disciple of Jesus.
Our primary loyalty should always be to God, not to any human being, institution, or country—not even to any theological tradition.