Barbara Melosh
Barbara Melosh lives in Wilmington, Delaware.
A church is not a building. But I believe a church building is often an outward and visible sign of a congregation's spiritual condition.
Noise level
"Noise is not the most important problem in the world," Garret Keizer begins. But he makes a robust case for noise's far-reaching effects.
Stuff; Objects of Our Affection
The average house size has nearly doubled since 1970. Yet self-storage units, once nearly nonexistent, are a booming business.
“You are not equipped.” The preacher seemed to be looking straight at me. Across the worship space, in this room festively decorated in red and filled with the heady scent of flowers, I could see some uncertain faces. In a few minutes, we would go forward to be ordained as Lutheran pastors. Yet as the preacher set before us the charges of ordination, he continued to follow each one with the same stark pronouncement. “You are not equipped.”
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