My daughter’s wedding is today. At last, the day has arrived! As you might expect, at my house we have…
Debra RienstraJuly 10, 2015
Like parents and their children, it seems inappropriate for a minister to have favourite parishioners. But—appropriate or not, fair or…
Thomas GoodhartJuly 9, 2015
This fall I’m speaking at a conference called Why Christian? Christian blogger/author Rachel Held Evans and Lutheran pastor Nadia Bolz-Weber…
Jes KastJuly 8, 2015
A couple of years ago at the Fuller Seminary conference “Preaching in a Visual Age,” I had the great opportunity…
Scott HoezeeJuly 7, 2015
By Chad Pierce More scholarly and eloquent pieces have been written on the racial divide that has come to a…
Chad PierceJuly 6, 2015
By Helen Luhrs When my mom died this winter, I realized the generation of my parents was gone. What I…
Helen LuhrsJuly 5, 2015
I’ve had a long adversarial relationship with American civil religion. It began with all those invocations I heard as a…
James BrattJuly 3, 2015
As a theologian I tend to focus on more contemporary thinkers. Not that I've ignored the others—I enjoyed my Patristic and…
Jason LiefJuly 3, 2015
Fourth of July festivities, where I live, have already begun. The shocking and randomly timed booms of consumer fireworks remind…
Theresa LatiniJuly 2, 2015
