Carey Nieuwhof offers eight reasons why most Protestant churches remain on the small side. The eight reasons boil down to one reason. Nieuwhof, lead pastor
The New York Times: Children shot accidentally — usually by other children — are collateral casualties of the accessibility of guns in America, their deaths
A sweet story about a widow and a widower who met and married from yesterday’s New York Times. The widow is Dana Fern, and the
Monday, September 30, 2013 — Week of Proper 21, Year One [Go to Mission St Clare for an online version of the Daily Office including
by Derek Olsen The pieces that You can get that. Do you want to admire the layout and printing of Daniel Updike’s edition of the
I never understood the idea of taking all the good singers out of the congregation – @Sarcasticluther says their choir’s in pews #RNA2013
Throughout my SNAP Challenge, I kept returning to the same questions: What kind of society do we want to live in? Do we want to live in a country that turns a cold shoulder to the problem of hunger, or one in which we work together to face it head on?
Birhan Woldu, the face of Ethiopia’s 1984 famine i working as a nurse and building schools for children. This is her story. From Why Poverty?
EfM: Education for Ministry):
Here’s my confession: I’m not really crazy about angels–at least, not the truck stop figurine renditions of them–and I’m always a little creeped out by that version. They’re just too glittery and sparkly and Tinkerbell-ish for my tastes.