Clint Benesh is a friend and colleague who recently wrote this while at church camp, and I share it with his graciously expressed permission — This morning at 6:30 about 50 students from many churches gathered together for no other…

Leonard Sweet, about five minutes ago – – – It used to be that people in power and politics hired poets and musicians (e.g. court singers) to help them get their word out and sculpt their image. Now those in…

BY KATE COMPSTON I dream of a church that joins in with God’s laughing as she rocks in her rapture enjoying her art: she’s glad of her world, in its risking and growing: ’tis the child she has borne and…

The one with these words superimposed over a picture of him — People don’t fake depression… they fake being okay. Remember that. Be kind. — just a reminder.

“As many contemporary thinkers have pointed out, when you create an identity by despising other groups, it makes you dependent in many ways on them. Ironically, the ‘other’ becomes part of who you are. You need for them to stay…

We’d talked briefly at an event at a church. He was a 20-something guy, I was just some old guy. We had a couple of things in common, including, I assumed, the church where some of his family members were…

Sky McCracken is a colleague and online friend. Wish I lived closer to him. Anyway, he recently wrote this and matches a quick story I’ll tell tomorrow. It’s a sad one, doesn’t have a happy ending. So here, today, right…

Lyrics by Kevin Snyman; may be sung to the tune of “streets of Laredo” I dream of a church that joins in with God’s visionOf a people who live without counting the cost;She trusts in the Spirit of Christ Jesus’…

Be still and know that I am God. — Psalm 46:10 Becca Ehrlich recently wrote about Psalm 46:10, saying this — Many of us live life in a whirlwind of scheduled commitments and busyness. In fact, society encourages it. Busyness…

Felicia Caid Smith “I am a woman who has been told she is spiritually inferior because of her gender, a woman who was required to remain silent during church conferences, who was not allowed to lead a ministry apart from…