By Mona Eltahawy
I was well into my two-eggs-sunny-side-up brunch last Saturday morning at the local café when I found a copy of that day’s New York Times opened at the opinion section. I browsed it as I munched on my toast and then turned to the front page of the paper where a picture I […]
by David Bartlett
I teach at a seminary where we try very hard to be sensitive to the diversity of the whole body of Christ. While most of the community is of Euro-American descent and the overwhelming majority of the student body consist of anglo Presbyterians, we are delighted that the faculty is becoming more and more […]
by Jim Burklo
They are still in circulation, all these years later. I remember young, earnest, long-haired converts to Christianity passing out these tracts at the beach when I was a teenager in Santa Cruz, California. The Four Spiritual Laws were created by Campus Crusade for Christ, an evangelical group, as a way of boiling the […]
by Susan Andrews
One of the new things in my life is books-on-tape, After the first four or five months of one and two hour drives – a necessary part of my new ministry as a presbytery executive - I decided I needed to figure out a way to stay alert. And so I went to […]
by Fred Weidmann
It was on July 4th that I read this news release from across the pond: “LONDON (ENI): The Church of England has welcomed Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s proposal to parliament to remove the prime minister from the process of choosing the church’s bishops in the future.” Good news! What could be better than […]
by Gordon McClellan
The lectionary readings for this week lead us to the story of Naaman? Who was Naaman? Who was this man that is mentioned only one other time in Scripture –by Jesus - during his first sermon ever in his hometown of Nazareth, and whose mention causes the hometown congregation to became enraged and […]
by Meg Peery McLaughlin
She said the Buddhists call it “monkey mind.” Thoughts that swing from limb to limb, ever obsessing, never still. Elizabeth Gilbert’s new gem of a read, Eat, Pray, Love is an account of her search for pleasure and for God in Italy, India and Indonesia. While residing on an Ashram in India, […]
by Robert K. Martin
I’m sick and tired of the world being divided into 2 opposing groups: blue or red states, gay or straight, conservative-liberal, evangelicals and-everybody-else. Whether it’s coming from the media or politicians or our pastors or even from my own inability to think creatively, it’s like we are back on the school playground […]