Campus life support
The college is closing, and I'm the chaplain.
The college is closing, and I'm the chaplain.
"In the Middle East peace process, the peace was being negotiated by secular elites who lacked the religious language of so many of their people."
The Upper Salween Valley is an inhospitable, sparsely populated place. It may seem like an unlikely place for a Christian community to thrive.
Muslims have been in our town for a while, but the mosque is new. Last spring our church paid a call on our neighbors there.
Are the rest of us so different from our brothers and sisters in Libya or in Charleston? Are they heroes with whom we can never identify?
What if someone released all our e-mails and texts? It would make the Ashley Madison hack look quaint in comparison.
When I was baptized at 12, I refused what Baptists call “the right hand of fellowship.” I wanted the water but not the fellowship.
One day, as I considered my routine of pills and naps and exercises, I saw that it is not unlike praying the hours.
Christians didn’t baptize Aldo Leopold’s land ethic after the fact. They got there years before his work.