…to a new location: the online magazine, Beliefnet! You can find it at: http://blog.beliefnet.com/fel lowshipofsaintsandsinners/. Please stop by and invite your friends, too! In the absence of...
How is this for a riveting opener? I recently went to an exhibit at the Carter Center displaying former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright’s jewelry. Not just any jewelry, but pins. And,...
Jobs arrives with the team from the best picture nominate film "Up" at the 82nd Academy Awards in Hollywood in March 2010. (REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/Files) Steve Jobs died yesterday aft...
“‘Go! I am sending you out like lambs among wolves.’” Luke 10:3 “These were his instructions: ’Take nothing for the journey except a staff- no bread, no bag, n...
It is not every day that you hear a story that touches something deep inside of you. That gives you a taste for “church” that matters. Not “church” as just another social obl...
I heard this song sung by Alanis Morisette the other day on the radio. It’s actually a wonderful reflection on the doctrine that makes Christianity so distinctive- the notion that in Jesus Chr...
“When an evil spirit comes out of a man, it goes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it. Then it says, ‘I will return to the house I left.’ When it arrives, it find...
“No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth onto an old coat. The patch will simply pull away from the coat, and you’ll have a worse hole than you started with. People don’t put new win...
These days my denomination, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), finds itself bracing for the possibility of further membership losses with more congregations jumping ship- this after a majority of pres...
The entry stone at the Memorial of Moses atop Mount Nebo. Then Moses climbed Mount Nebo from the plains of Moab to the top of Pisgah, across from Jericho. There the Lord showed him the whole land...
Rev. Dr. Paul Morehead, whose short-wave radio broadcast from Montgomery, Alabama reportedly reaches an estimated 1.6 million listeners worldwide, has the answer: Morehead has invented a “what...
"Grace of God" in Greek Here is a conversation starter: Where did you last experience “grace” and what did it look like? In the spir...
An image of terror used by whites against blacks within the last century in my country. ’It isn’t right,’ replied Jesus, ‘to take the children’s bread and throw it to ...
”A Canaanite woman from [Tyre and Sidon] came out and shouted, ’Have pity on me, son of David! My daughter is demon-possessed! She’s in a bad way!’ Jesus, however, said ...
"I'm free to do what I want any old time." Rolling Stones The sixteenth century father of Protestantism, Martin Luther, knew that human beings simultaneously crave and rebel against fr...
The latest census data out shows that my state of residence, Georgia, is now the third poorest state in the nation, with roughly one in every five Georgians qualifying as “poor” due to un...
“Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to turn ‘a man against his father, a daughter against her mothe...
I confess I’m a yard sale junkie. On most any Saturday the signs in the neighborhood trigger those irrepressible hunter-gatherer instincts. In no time I am digging through other people’s...
"Who's your Daddy?" Another disciple said to him, “Lord, first let me go and bury my father.” But Jesus told him, “Follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead.&#...
Hisham Matar is the author of the novels, Anatomy of a Disappearance and In the Country of Men. Just yesterday I was listening to an NPR interview with the writer Hisham Matar, whose latest novel, An...
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