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Small Beginnings (Pent. 25, Year B)

The Lord wants our love pouring out from the heart, vibrating in the mind, searing the soul, going from strength to strength.

Worshiping God with Heart, Mind, and Body

The body is never neutral in worship, “never merely a body,” but always interacting with other bodies, with traditions and assumptions, with cultural locations, with expectations and limitations, and with the Creator of bodies.

For Maundy Thursday

By Garwood Anderson The Maundy Thursday liturgy is probably my favorite of the year. So much happens, from the washing of feet to the Garden...

When We Make Mistakes in Our Prayers

By Mary Foulger I was embarrassed. I had been so excited to pray with some of the important leaders in my Christian organization. Perhaps I would...

Negative Capability: A Pastoral Virtue

What does the poet John Keats have to teach the pastors of the church? John Bauerschmidt expands on a suggestion of Eugene Peterson, and suggests how we need to maximize  our “negative capability.”

Why I Wear Black

By Zachary Guiliano I always knew I’d wear black. My first inkling came when I was 18 and an intern at a Pentecostal church. I attended...

Augustinian Thoughts on the Bible and Humility

By Joey Royal Augustine of Hippo, teacher of rhetoric, admirer of Cicero, initially found the Bible crude and unsophisticated. He found both the form and...

The Unselfish Pastor

A pastor is called according to the ministry of Jesus himself, who gave up his life for the world.

9/1 Readings: Bow Down Before God

Humbled before God, we have all the riches of God and may give voice to every creature under heaven in endless and boundless praise.

God and the Lived Reality of Humility

The distinctiveness of the Christian vision of God lies at the heart of Jane Williams’s book because of a suggestion from her editor at Bloomsbury.

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