Googling my way out of a pastoral relationship

The man turned in a visitor card. I pulled up my web browser.

by Ragan Sutterfield

We should celebrate the “death day” of our baptism each year

Baptism is about dying with Christ. Why don't more churches talk about this?

by Frank G. Honeycutt

What if classrooms were shaped by a restorative justice sensibility?

Creating space for a different kind of engagement

by Debra Dean Murphy

A black pastor writes to the white church about its complicity in oppression

Lenny Duncan’s letter is full of hope and fury, love and lament—like Paul’s epistles.

by Tim Brown

Can clergy earn back the public trust they’ve lost?

Respect for pastors is at an all-time low. What would help?

by Peter W. Marty

Living by the Word for Sunday, August 11

Jesus is the thief, and the powers of this world own the house in which we’re waiting.

by Hardy Kim

Trees communicate with one another. I’m trying to listen.

My favorite is a 100-year-old male cottonwood. I call him Grandfather.

by Belden C. Lane

Hilma af Klint’s new ways of seeing

Years before Kandinsky, a Swedish woman created magnificent abstract paintings.

by Stephanie Paulsell

After the personal salvation gospel

The world won't be saved by my prayers or virtuous desires.

by Angela Denker

Elaine Pagels’s lifelong search for the sacred

Pagels vividly recounts her spiritual experiences. But she won’t let herself be bound by any tradition.

by Aaron Klink