Come o long expected Jesus. Born to set thy people free. From our fears and sins release us . . . This well-sung Advent hymn, text...

Today is the first Sunday of Advent. For those who aren’t Christian liturgy geeks, it means we’ve got four weeks until Christmas to sing...

Spending a week in Santa Fe for opera and chamber music feeds my soul. I have been doing this off and on for forty years. I took Colleen...

As the United Church of Christ governance boards begin to meet in Cleveland, I want to offer some reflections on the proposal to...

The small-town Presbyterian church I grew up in didn’t have any images of Jesus anywhere in the building and Jesus was rarely the subject...

What is truth? – Pontius Pilate You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free. – John 8:32 In the Gospels, the anger of Jesus...

It strikes me that some feminists, such as Gloria Steinem and Robin Morgan, in their righteous and right-on desire to defend Hillary...

Movements for social change require all kinds of invisible angels to create lasting change. The feminist movement lost one such angel...

Being “church” is not an organizational task. In Michael Jinkin’s wonderful book, The Church Faces Death: Ecclesiology in Postmodern...

I am who I am, at least in part, because of her. This past week I found myself uttering these words as I considered the untimely and...