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...
On Shared Humanity and Diverse Religion: Notes from Egypt
By Jeff Boldt
My wife and I recently moved our four kids to Egypt, where I now work for the bishop in the Alexandria School of Theology. I’m not a complete stranger to North Africa and the Middle East. I’ve ... 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...
Think Again, Sunshine: Conquest and Jordan Peterson
By Sam Cripps
Dr. Jordan Peterson, a former professor of psychology at the University of Toronto, has taken the English-speaking world by storm. His books 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote for Chaos and Beyond ... Read More...
Ash and Johnny Cash
By Clint Wilson
I don’t always turn to music stars for spiritual nourishment, but when I do, I turn toward Johnny Cash. A few years ago, I had the privilege of visiting the Johnny Cash Museum in Nashville, T... Read More...
To Care and Not To Care
By Ian Olson
Lent is always a summoning out of the fertile Jordan Valley and into the wasteland, a wasteland, paradoxically, pregnant with promise. We are driven out of the lush surplus to the desert so as t... Read More...
The Real ‘Great Divide’
By Charlie Clauss
In The Gulag Archipelago, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn tells the story of the Soviet gulag. He sprinkles in pieces of autobiography: while an officer in the Soviet army, he was accused, arrested,... Read More...
On Leaving Social Media
By Cole Hartin
I did not expect that pastoral ministry would require me to spend so much time with a computer. I anticipated using Word to compose sermons. And I anticipated corresponding by email. But I did... Read More...