Church is for Life Together
Think with me for a minute of the groups of which you’ve been a part. Maybe a sports team, a company staff, a choir, a neighborhood association. Maybe a polit...
Church is for Legacy
If you had to summarize your life in six words, what would they be? That was the question posed years ago from an online magazine to a number of writers, both k...
Church is for Accesibility
One of the all-time great TV shows – in my humble opinion – was The West Wing, back in popularity – again! – like everything else from the 1990s...
Church is for Sustainability
Tell me – what are the durable stories in your life? You know the ones I’m talking about: the stories that just seem to keep carrying on, the stories that l...
Church is for Hospitality
Yesterday afternoon, my family had a spirited round of conversations on our back porch. We were in the midst of a day-long basketball tournament for Liam, and h...
What is Church For?
I’ve told you before the story from Dr. Fred Craddock, the late pastor and storyteller, who shared about the first church he pastored....
Attending Church: Presence
Cartoonist and comedian Seth MacFarlane, creator of “The Family Guy” show, was interviewed a dozen years ago on NPR’s Fresh Air about a new album he had c...
Attending Church: Abundant Imagination
If I told you a world without poverty is possible - would you believe me? I grew up in a family that faithfully attended a small Baptist church in the mountains...
Attending Church: Fruitfulness
Over these past few weeks, we’ve been looking together in the parables of the Gospel of Matthew, listening to Jesus use these short, enigmatic stories intende...
Attending Church: Responsibility
These fall weeks, we’ve journeyed with Jesus through the Gospel of Matthew – first in an agrarian stretch of parables through Matthew chapter 13, learning o...
Attending Church: Stewardship
There once was a man named Pahom. Pahom loved land, truly more than anything in the world. He loved the land so much that he convinced himself it was necessary ...
We Have This Treasure
There once lived a water carrier. Every morning, as soon as the sun rose, she walked from her home to collect water in two earthen pots that hung from a long po...