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Two refreshing new books place the storyteller within the story he tells.

An insight I gleaned from Ernest Hemingway rings true for the mainline church today.

The Bible uses the word fear both for fright and awe. This week's texts reveal the difference.

God "has put all things under his feet." This includes the NFL.

Small deceptions work like a narcotic, making us feel nicely respectable. Especially in church.

Today's laborers are more likely cleaning toilets than mining coal. But there's still a need to organize.

Arguments about common concerns are most likely to be compelling in person—but that doesn't stop us from trying to make them on social media.

As a young white pastor, I learned the value of working with black organizations—and not trying to be in charge.

Every time I see Cleveland's baseball mascot, I think of the Sand Creek Massacre—and the two Methodist leaders behind it.

They share a faith background, but one supports school choice and the other opposes it. Here’s why.

It's a church—and a yoga studio, psychotherapist's office, and Reiki healing space.

Life's later decades present distinctive virtues—and vices.

For a long time I sat with Mary at Jesus' tomb—sad, weeping, hopeless.

White flight, preachers and social media, and the tricky relationship between church and world.