Branding Jesus
By Kelly Wilson
Church attendance is in decline. This has given birth to many articles and think pieces exploring why churches are shrinking, and has prompted many churches to increase their efforts at evang... Read More...
A New Grace for Meals
By John Mason Lock
Our family devotions include a practice that we’ve been using for almost a decade. In sharing it here, I do not mean to imply that it should be universal. Among its other qualities, surely... Read More...
The Body of Christ in the Tomb of Christ
By Molly Jane Layton
The phone read 4:15 a.m. as my alarm roused me from a light sleep. My worry about not hearing it was unfounded; excitement for the morning’s events kept me from slumbering too deeply. Cl... Read More...
‘Where the Wild Things Are’
By Christopher Yoder
And he was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted of Satan;
and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered unto him.
— Mark 1:13
In Maurice Sendak’s delightful children’s... Read More...
Jesus, Baptism, and the Reversal of Death in Mark 4:1–5:43
By Paul D. Wheatley
Life lived on this side of eternity is beset with an awareness of its finitude. We live with a quiet sense of life’s fragility. From the hushed moments at grandmother’s bedside, to youthf... Read More...
Meditation on an Image
By Len Freeman
crosses on crosses on
crosses on crosses
on crosses on crosses to
preternal forces
to say that it mattered and
mattered and matters
to maker and whittler
and gluer and hanger
who wandere... Read More...
Supporting Our Bishops on Gun Violence
By Ronald Wells
The continuing occurrence of mass shootings have troubled all of us. I am very proud of the bishops in the Episcopal Church for their leadership in addressing this problem. My wife and I are ... Read More...
Lent Is Preparation for the Great Vigil of Easter
By Daniel Martins
While the season of Lent is multifaceted, it can never be fully or properly understood apart from its connection to the sacrament of baptism. Its deepest roots are in its role as a final pr... Read More...