Luke is in a maximum security prison. He wants to be an Episcopal priest.
Church
While struggling with this question as a church songwriter, I came up with six guidelines.
Pastors find an imaginative outlet in Dungeons & Dragons.
A clergy mental health crisis
The stress of the past few years has brought many to the breaking point.
The sacred relics of a lifetime of ministry
Marilyn wasn’t sure she could stomach the sight of a truck carting 56 years of her husband's work to the dump.
The Word made grotesque
If we want our sermons to resemble real life, says Charles Campbell, we might take a hint from carnival.
My church is located in the first municipality in the country with a public reparations fund.
Is Christian celebrity harmful to the church?
Yes, says Katelyn Beaty, who defines celebrity as “fame’s shinier, slightly obnoxious cousin.”
On All Saints’ Day I remember those who tried and failed and tried again.
“Howard Baskerville believed there was no separation of religion and politics,” says Reza Aslan, “that democracy was a divine gift.”
Justin Perkins and Charlotte Bass suffered multiple losses during their missionary years. Was it worth it?
Post-evangelical healing
Charles Marsh writes beautifully about the anxiety instilled by his childhood faith—and the therapy it took to overcome it.
Land acknowledgments can do a lot of good—if they’re rooted in solid process and relationships.
Oddly enough, some of the best TV shows about clergy come from secular Europe.
Finding church after religious trauma
Brooke Petersen gathers the stories of eight queer Christians who left churches—and found new ones.
