Like many ministers, I once stood behind a high pulpit on Sunday morning, looking down on a congregation of eager listeners. How “eager” I’m n…
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I don’t often get to visit other congregations, so it was good to visit Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Ga., recently. A hobby club I’m in…
Except in the case of brain surgery, there are generally more ways than one to accomplish tasks. Some insist their way is the only way, perhap…
Raised in a Protestant Christian tradition that values the historic creeds of the Church, I learned from an early age to respect and repeat th…
It appears we live in a time when the “commercial success” of the “Christian brand” has become fused or confused with a kind of “political rel…
Reading about a gathering of thousands of Christian men in my home state of Washington, I wasn’t surprised to hear them proclaiming the need f…
In the PBS series “All Creatures Great and Small,” the Yorkshire veterinarian and his wife have a young son who plays an angel in the Christma…
I first noticed the implicit bias when studying World Religions in my Evangelical college. All faith traditions other than Christian were “ism…
With the launch of this new column last time, we officially set sail on a grand and far-reaching journey that will eventually take us from the…
When you’re in ministry as long as I was, you frequently get asked this question: Where do we go—what happens—after death?