Reflections for

Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany, Feb 09, 2014

Isaiah 58:1-9a (9b-12); Psalm 112:1-9 (10); 1 Corinthians 2:1-12 (13-16); Matthew 5:13-20

Features

Making Lent difficult

The case for rigorous disciplines

Feb 13, 2013 by Ted A. Smith

Sustainable Lenten disciplines anticipate an Easter in which they will continue. But surely Easter hope is for something more.

From the CCblogs Network

Salt, light and introverted congregations

May 04, 2012 by James Sledge

For a variety of reasons, Christian faith in America tends to be a private and personal thing.  Faith is what we believe, and that can be safely tucked away in our brain somewhere.  In the faith understanding I grew up with, you can be a faithful Christian if you go to church on Sunday and abide by societal norms for morality.  So, in essence, if people don't check the church par

Blogging Toward Sunday

Coming in weakness

1 Corinthians 2:1-16

Jan 31, 2011 by Scott D. Anderson

For the past 20 years I have toiled in the vineyards of two state legislatures: in California for 12 years and now in Wisconsin for the past eight, along with occasional forays to the U.S. Congress. In these arenas I have represented the interests of state councils of churches, which are really the interests of those who don't have the time, money or wherewithal to advocate for themselves: children, impoverished families, working-class parents with low-paying jobs.

Living by the Word

Sunday, February 6, 2011

1 Corinthians 2:1–16

Jan 25, 2011 by Scott D. Anderson

Recently representatives of Wis­consin Governor-elect Scott Walker asked me to assist with the Governor's Inaugural Prayer Breakfast in Madison. Walker, a young, dynamic conservative Republican and Christian evangelical who is the son of a Baptist minister, was swept into office last November in the anti-incumbent tidal wave that hit most of the nation.

Cover Story

Go fast and live

Hunger as spiritual discipline

Feb 28, 2001 by Mark Buchanan

Recently some huge billboards along British Columbia’s major roadways showed black-and-white photos of car wrecks—gashed and mangled metal, clouds of steam and smoke—all illumined under the luridness of fire, flares, searchlights and siren lights. The caption beneath the ads was as stark and grim as the photos: “Speed is killing us. Slow down and live.”

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