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Iconoclasm isn’t just an expression of anger. It’s how we try to make new worlds. 

A novel posing as a memoir that is really a sympathetic comedy 

This dad, who came to Wee Worship with three young sons, was one of the most miserable people I’ve encountered at church. Wee Worship is a service that embraces the needs and gifts of very young children. In addition to looking glum and avoiding eye contact, the dad appeared to be overwhelmed and stressed to the max by the three boys. Conversation was forced and difficult.

Iam more than a little obsessed with bodies and their limits and possibilities. Maybe it’s because my own body gives me so much trouble. (I have complex Crohn’s disease and live with the aftereffects of extensive bowel surgery.) Maybe it’s because I think Ludwig Wittgenstein was onto something when he said, “The human body is the best picture of the human soul.”

Richard Hofstadter’s Pulitzer Prize–winning book Anti-intellectualism in American Life was published 60 years ago this month. In it, the historian suggests that American culture has recast the role of the intellect as a vice instead of a virtue, diminishing expertise while glorifying the plain sense of the common person. Anti-intellectualism, he writes, is “a resentment . . .

Gordon Lathrop roots his case for in-person worship in scripture and Lutheran tradition.

If God gives growth and growth means change, the implications are broad.

Evangelism has become a dirty word among progressive Christians. But don’t we have good news to share?

Clergy burnout happens when churches expect pastors to do everything and pastors oblige.