How many times has this happened to you: you are driving - or watching TV or a movie - and you hear a song that moves you to tears? It happ...

So epiphanies come all the time and not just in January, right? The other night I started reading Cathleen Falsani's wonderful book, Si...

Interesting: as I reflected a little bit tonight on sensing my call to ministry at 16 - in the midst of the cultural upheaval of 1968 at the...

When my children were confirmands in our urban Cleveland church, we completed the class by taking a three day trip to Washington, D.C. to v...

This article by Joe Klien is worth taking a look at - very insightful - and honestly clear about both the obvious and subliminal issues t ak...

The Ikon Community of Belfast, Northern Ireland writes: " Inhabiting a space on the outer edges of religious life, we are a Belfast-bas...

Well, not exactly, but we have decided that after watching reruns of "House" in a semi-vegetative state last night, the time had c...

Tonight we start a 5 part series of "Film, Faith and Culture" conversations at First Church with the hope that as we go deep er in...

One of the on-going challenges of my professional life has to do with finding balance when it comes to blended worship : I fundamentally be...

Ok, why is it that Presidential candidates who are allied with strict Biblical interpretation can get a pass when it comes to lying and bein...

So... Ludwig Feuerbach WAS right after all! You may recall (or not) that Feuerbach was the 19th century Ge rman theology student who became...