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October 2019

October 20, 2019
October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month. Disability Awareness Sunday also falls in October in...
October 18, 2019
Pastors and ministry leaders are often well-trained to care for people’s eternal well-being. However, they...
October 13, 2019
Today marks the beginning of the Jewish pilgrimage festival known as Sukkot, the Feast of...
October 06, 2019
The inquiry into whether President Trump should be subject to impeachment raises questions for many...
October 05, 2019
The Season of Creation ends every year with the Feast Day of Saint Francis of...

September 2019

September 30, 2019
Biblical scholar Nancy Erickson reflects on her colleague John Walton’s discussion of functions and functionaries...
September 22, 2019
This past week, Union Theological Seminary students made public confession to plants during a chapel...
September 19, 2019
Dr. Dave Kresta is a Christian, an engineer, and an urbanologist. You will see in...
September 15, 2019
This is the third reflection for the Season of Creation, which is part and parcel...
September 14, 2019
All too often, we look at those who are simply different as odd, perhaps dangerous,...
September 11, 2019
By Paul Louis Metzger and John W. Morehead: Today marks eighteen years since the Twin Towers...
September 08, 2019
This is the second entry on the Season of Creation, which many ecclesial traditions celebrate...
September 07, 2019
Earlier this week, a group of scientists and theologians met to discuss various issues of...
September 01, 2019
How often have you and your church prayed for the care of creation? If you...

August 2019

August 27, 2019
Mae Elise Cannon and Andrea Smith are the editors of the newly released “Evangelical Theologies...
August 25, 2019
The church calendar has no specific day marking Christ’s return to judge the nations, bring...
August 24, 2019
This is the first entry in a series of posts dedicated to highlighting efforts to...
August 18, 2019
The Church calendar reorders us in time. How so? For example, the ecclesial calendar helps...
August 15, 2019
The last entry engaged the subject of Mary’s Assumption or exaltation to heaven at the...
August 14, 2019
August 15th marks the assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary according to official Roman Catholic teaching....
August 10, 2019
Jemar Tisby’s excellent article in The Washington Post impresses upon those of us who are...
August 09, 2019
The recent mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio and knife attacks in...
August 04, 2019
Today marks the eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. How might Ordinary Time’s emphasis on ordering...
August 03, 2019
“Ordinary Time” in the Christian calendar does not signify ordinary, but ordering according to Jesus’...

July 2019

July 25, 2019
There have always been two Americas when it comes to race relations, one that reflects...
July 14, 2019
Ordinary Time in the Christian calendar is not about ordinary and ho-hum events, but about...
July 13, 2019
Proverbs 4:23 reads, “Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs...
July 07, 2019
Ordinary Time constitutes two seasons in the church calendar. The first season or phase of...
July 06, 2019
In the previous post, we reflected on scorched earth tactics involving the poisoning of water...
July 05, 2019
You’ve likely seen those commercials for Capital One credit cards with the tag line, “What’s...
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