Church

In praise of church musicians

Great leaders of congregational song attend to the new community formed every time a church gathers.

Can inclusive churches grow and thrive?

When my spouse’s church became more affirming, the major givers left.

William Guthrie’s weird Christianity

The rector of St. Mark’s in-the-Bowery brought the church into relationship with the Greenwich Village avant-garde of the 1920s.

Showing up for church when I don’t want to

When I show up, God shows up—although not always in the sermon.

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