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October 2019

October 25, 2019

Harness Hope for the Race for Life

How would you respond if you lost your spouse and your job, or something similar?...

October 20, 2019

Celebrate Disability Awareness Month, Sunday, and the Differently-Abled

October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month. Disability Awareness Sunday also falls in October in...

October 18, 2019

How to Support Parishioners in Critical Health Care Decisions

Pastors and ministry leaders are often well-trained to care for people’s eternal well-being. However, they...

October 13, 2019

The Christian Life: on Pilgrimage through the Years

Today marks the beginning of the Jewish pilgrimage festival known as Sukkot, the Feast of...

October 06, 2019

Impeachment : Truth, Power and Partisanship

The inquiry into whether President Trump should be subject to impeachment raises questions for many...

October 05, 2019

Care for the Creation Does Not End on St. Francis of Assisi’s and St. Kateri Tekakwitha’s Days

The Season of Creation ends every year with the Feast Day of Saint Francis of...

September 2019

September 30, 2019

How Godlike Are We Functioning as Humans Here on Earth?

Biblical scholar Nancy Erickson reflects on her colleague John Walton’s discussion of functions and functionaries...

September 22, 2019

Confess to God and Fellow Humans—But Plants?

This past week, Union Theological Seminary students made public confession to plants during a chapel...

September 19, 2019

Can Churches Change Neighborhoods? An Interview with Urbanologist Dave Kresta

Dr. Dave Kresta is a Christian, an engineer, and an urbanologist. You will see in...

September 15, 2019

Honor God’s Temple — The Creation

This is the third reflection for the Season of Creation, which is part and parcel...

September 14, 2019

How To Turn Hearing Loss Into Gain

All too often, we look at those who are simply different as odd, perhaps dangerous,...

September 11, 2019

Post 9/11 Trauma and Transformation for Evangelicals

By Paul Louis Metzger and John W. Morehead: Today marks eighteen years since the Twin Towers...

September 08, 2019

“Let There Be Light(s)!” Don’t Take Light for Granted

This is the second entry on the Season of Creation, which many ecclesial traditions celebrate...

September 07, 2019

Pressing Concerns and Misconceptions Involving Faith and Science

Earlier this week, a group of scientists and theologians met to discuss various issues of...

September 01, 2019

Pray for the Care of Creation Today

How often have you and your church prayed for the care of creation? If you...

August 2019

August 27, 2019

Evangelical Theologies of Liberation and Justice: An Interview with Mae Elise Cannon & Andrea Smith

Mae Elise Cannon and Andrea Smith are the editors of the newly released “Evangelical Theologies...

August 25, 2019

Mark Your Calendars Daily for Christ’s Return

The church calendar has no specific day marking Christ’s return to judge the nations, bring...

August 24, 2019

Fixing Your City: How To Create Thriving Neighborhoods and Adapt to a Changing World

This is the first entry in a series of posts dedicated to highlighting efforts to...

August 18, 2019

The Church Calendar Reorders Us: Communal Past and Present

The Church calendar reorders us in time. How so? For example, the ecclesial calendar helps...

August 15, 2019

Mary’s Dormition: Worth Losing Sleep Over?

The last entry engaged the subject of Mary’s Assumption or exaltation to heaven at the...

August 14, 2019

The Assumption of Mary: On Her Unassuming Heart & Honor

August 15th marks the assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary according to official Roman Catholic teaching....

August 10, 2019

Soul Searching & Bridge-Building: White Evangelicals & Black Christians

Jemar Tisby’s excellent article in The Washington Post impresses upon those of us who are...

August 09, 2019

Deescalate Hostility. Enhance Empathy and Expand Solutions.

The recent mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio and knife attacks in...

August 04, 2019

Conquering Inordinate Desire During Ordinary Time

Today marks the eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. How might Ordinary Time’s emphasis on ordering...

August 03, 2019

Chronos Governs the Day. May Kairos Govern Our Lives.

“Ordinary Time” in the Christian calendar does not signify ordinary, but ordering according to Jesus’...

July 2019

July 25, 2019

Trump, Race and the Better Angels of Our Nature

There have always been two Americas when it comes to race relations, one that reflects...

July 14, 2019

May Jesus Order Our Steps During Ordinary Time

Ordinary Time in the Christian calendar is not about ordinary and ho-hum events, but about...

July 13, 2019

Guard Against Polluting the Heart

Proverbs 4:23 reads, “Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs...

July 07, 2019

Jesus Acts Extraordinarily During Ordinary Time

Ordinary Time constitutes two seasons in the church calendar. The first season or phase of...

July 06, 2019

Don’t Let the Pretty Packaging Fool You: What’s in the Bottled Water?

In the previous post, we reflected on scorched earth tactics involving the poisoning of water...

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