The members, who experience the address of Christ when they are called together as the Body, give testimony to that…

In a less radical vein, the church accompanies all of its members as they move out into their world of…

Consider who might be seen as not only outsiders but enemies of the good of the community in our time.…

According to Matthew, immediately following Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, he came down from the mountain and performed two acts…

Forgiveness goes far beyond the demonstration of acceptance of one who comes to you. Jesus was very clear that his…

Tricia had been in the choir when she was a little girl. She loved the music. It was the best…

One of the scariest words ever spoken by Jesus is in the Gospel of John. During one of his resurrection…

If sin is the alienation or distancing which we experience as a result of act, attitude, fear, desire or indifference…

Witness in the third paradigm is not done from a position of arrogance but of humility. A problem for the…

In all three paradigms, the focus of mission is “salvation,” but the frontier where that mission is carried out shifts.…

Over 17 years ago, Loren Mead, in his book The Once and Future Church, stated that “where a sense of…

If by our baptism we are a called people of God, then it is important that we are clear about…

Because so many people have been offended by a particular form of evangelism that is visible in our society, it…

In our pluralistic society we will have the opportunity to interact with people of many faiths as well as many…

The relation of the Christian to our Jewish neighbors is a special case. Paul is quite clear in his letter…

We will also have conversations with the pragmatic agnostics whose numbers seem to be increasing in our culture. These are…

Sally and her friend and colleague, Brian, have been working feverishly to complete a legal brief. They come to a…

Despite the secular nature of our society, there are frequent opportunities for conversations about the faith which start from the…

In a society which has been captured by a horizontal view of reality, there is a hunger for the experience…

In a society which holds a great antipathy for authoritarianism, the church needs to be sensitive to the way we…