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August 2014

August 11, 2014

By Kimberly D. Russaw. People talk about how they give to those in need. Those...

August 04, 2014

Our Dysfunctional Families (Genesis 37:1-4, 12-28)

By Rev. David Lewicki. People talk about their families and sibling relationships. Before I knew...

July 2014

July 28, 2014

Could Loaves and Fishes Change the Immigration Dilemma? (Matthew 14:13-21)

By Verity Jones. People react to the dramatic rise in unaccompanied children arriving illegally in...

July 21, 2014

More than Conquerors: Romans 8:26-39 and Disability

By Rev. Dr. Jaime Clark-Soles. “No, in all these things we are more than conquerors...

July 14, 2014

Do You Know How to Two-Step?

By Stephanie Buckhanon Crowder. Fifty years later, poverty is still an issue in America. I...

July 09, 2014

All in the Family (Genesis 25:19-34)

By Nyasha Junior. Student loan debt in America by the numbers. Irresponsible. Foolish. Impulsive. Recent...

June 2014

June 23, 2014

Sacrificing Our Sons and Daughters (Genesis 22:1-14)

By Rev. Dr. Cari Jackson. A veteran and military spouse speaks about the challenges facing...

June 16, 2014

Slavery, Surrogacy, and Society: Making a Future in the Wilderness

By Anathea Portier-Young. Magdalene is a residential program that helps women who have survived lives...

June 02, 2014

The First Multi-Media Blowup Moment (Acts 2:1-21)

By Dr. Karyn L. Wiseman How the story of the Nigerian girls came to the...

May 2014

May 26, 2014

Christian Suffering in a World of Suffering

By David A. Sánchez The recent focus on the kidnapped girls in Nigeria shines a...

May 19, 2014

Stand by Me: Memorial Day and the Healing of Souls

By Mary Hinkle Shore The Soul Repair Center was set up to focus on moral...

May 13, 2014

Heaven Is a Home (John 14:1-14)

By Eric D. Barreto Undocumented immigrants like Thelma live in fear of deportation and losing...

May 05, 2014

How to Love Like a Mother (John 10:1-10)

By Anne Sutherland Howard How one mother who lost a child to gun violence tried...

April 2014

April 28, 2014

Go Ahead and Die Already (Luke 24:13-35)

By Stephanie Buckhanon Crowder The role of race in the imposition of the death penalty...

April 21, 2014

Reorienting Ourselves to the Earth (Acts 2:14a, 22-32)

By Raj Nadella The accelerated pace of climate change deterioration in recent decades is highlighted...

April 14, 2014

Seeing and Believing at Easter Time (John 20:1-18)

By Greg Carey People tell us about their belief in God. Easter Sunday marks the...

March 2014

March 31, 2014

Rewrite Those Epitaphs

By Lisa Nichols Hickman People tell us how they want to be remembered after they...

March 24, 2014

Social Media and the Shepherd (Psalm 23)

By Henry G. Brinton Americans are spending a lot of time on social media, but...

March 17, 2014

Why You Ought to Leave the Church (John 4:5-42)

By Matthew L. Skinner Recently, a large wealthy church decided to break up with my...

March 10, 2014

Dare to Sit With Suffering (Genesis 12:1-4)

By Melissa Browning People weigh in on the morality of aiding refugees and others suffering...

March 03, 2014

By Greg Carey The legacy of Eve continues to permeate images of women in our...

February 2014

February 24, 2014

God Beyond All Relationships and Agendas: Exodus 24:12-18

By Walter Brueggemann Exodus 19-24 enacts an agreement of mutual fidelity between YHWH and Israel....

February 17, 2014

How to Be Perfect (Matthew 5:38-48)

By Eric D. Barreto There's more to this year's Olympics than sports. “Be perfect, therefore,...

February 10, 2014

A New Way of Being “Pro-Choice”

By Rev. Stephanie Buckhanon Crowder, Ph.D. Ella Baker chose her own path to effecting positive...

February 03, 2014

A Hard Word to Hear This Winter (Isaiah 58:1-9a)

By Barbara Lundblad Midnight Run distributes food, clothing, and toiletries to the homeless. his has...

January 2014

January 27, 2014

Enjoy the Super Bowl; Be Suspicious of Its Values (Matthew 5:1-12)

By Matthew L. Skinner Eye-opening numbers about the Super Bowl…and how they stack up against...

January 20, 2014

Paul’s Call to Unity and Dr. King’s Legacy (1 Corinthians 1:10-17)

By Doug Hume Does the faith community fall short of the ideals established by Rev....

January 13, 2014

An Unexpected Servant: The Leadership of Pope Francis (Isaiah 49:1-7)

By Lynn Huber Pope Francis signaled a new kind of Vatican leadership from the very...

January 06, 2014

Baptism, Righteousness, and the War on Poverty: A 2014 Epiphany (Matthew 3:13-17)

By Roger Nam Fifty years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson declared a "war on poverty...

December 2013

December 23, 2013

Matthew 2:13 – 23: The Massacre of the Innocents and the Soul of the Warrior

By Coleman Baker Soldiers across millennia have had to take actions that violate basic human...

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