Reflections for

All Saints Day, Nov 01, 2013

Daniel 7:1-3, 15-18; Psalm 149; Ephesians 1:11-23; Luke 6:20-31

Editor's Desk

Faulty assumptions

Oct 25, 2012 by John M. Buchanan

I entered divinity school assuming that Christians ought to believe something is seriously wrong with the world. But I also loved the world.

Books

Saints As They Really Are

Voices of Holiness in Our Time

By Michael Plekon

Saints As They Really Are, by Michael Plekon

Oct 17, 2012 reviewed by Jon M. Sweeney

Michael Plekon is a man of many talents: he is a sociologist, an anthropologist and an expert in Kierkegaard’s thought. His spiritual pilgrimage includes converting from Catholicism to Lutheranism to Eastern Orthodoxy. His writing reflects all of this variegated experience, and for that reason it is sometimes tough to follow.

Features

What Jesus is doing

The ministry of the risen Lord

Sep 11, 2012 by Christopher Holmes

For years I have heard it said that the Christian community is to "incarnate" Jesus through word and deed. This makes me nervous.

Features

Prayer concern

Remembering all the victims of war

Dec 29, 2011 by Marilyn McEntyre

Each week my church includes a prayer for the families of American soldiers who have died. As the names are read, I try to hold them in prayer. But I have wrestled with these prayers.

Features

Growing in grace

What saints teach us

Oct 30, 2007 by David C. Steinmetz

The recent revelation that Mother Teresa of Calcutta suffered from long periods of spiritual desolation in which she felt utterly abandoned by God has—to say the least—met with a mixed response from the media.

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