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Ministry today requires multiple strategies and layered identities.

Survivors are in our pews—and pulpits.

Most of us are guilty of using words like progressive and conservative to divide between us and them. Can we do better?

I was skeptical about sainthood. Then I met three people whose lives were changed by Mother Teresa.

Hope springs eternal—except when it doesn't. That's the continual challenge of faith.

God has “crowned human beings with glory and honor.” This is important to hear amid the demeaning rhetoric of these disheartening days.

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.