Terry had been driving through a town on Sunday morning on her way to a Monday morning business appointment. As…

The worship experience provides several opportunities to lift up the experiences of grace within the life of a congregation. The…

A central task of the liturgy is the lifting up of the work of the people of God in praise.…

It was interesting to watch the recent General Assembly respond to the politics of fear. I was recently talking to…

When the original Peace, Unity, and Purity report of the PC(USA) came out in 2006, the emphasis was on pushing…

If we are willing to say that God can call whomever God chooses and our task is to affirm God’s…

The first issue that any Christian body has to resolve with respect to the ordination of either gay or straight,…

Some will ask why the General Assembly keeps discussing these issues when previous assemblies have already responded to them. The…

We are inviting people to step aside from their daily routines to touch and be touched by the eternal. Yet…

In our lives of faith, it is important to rehearse the many and often mysterious ways in which God has…

Worship becomes the people’s response to that incredible reality that the author of all the universes, creator of all time,…

Let us look at the place of worship in our contemporary society. Consider that most of the activities that take…

The word of the meeting spread quickly. There was some of the usual hate mail by people who were too…

The 218 General Assembly is all over except the shouting. There will probably be some shouting but it was an…

So they went to their official board, told them about Ferris and offered to start a chapter of “Parents of…

Howard and Lisa were really shaken. First, they had been told by their son four months ago that he was…

One of the images that Jeremiah used for the faith community was that of the potter and the clay. (Jeremiah…

The Assembly has separated into a series of committees to consider the issues that have been brought to it. Monday…

An additional opportunity made possible by relating to structures above the local congregation is to enable Christians to wrestle with…

This same task of enlarging our vision so that we can experience the fullness of God speaks to the ecumenical…