by Junia Joplin | Dec 21, 2022 | Opinion
“What is your favorite thing to preach about?” a colleague asked me, catching me off guard. A moment earlier, I had been venting my frustrations about vocational ministry. The question came as a way of saying, “Ok, but why don’t we take some time to think about what...
by Merianna Harrelson | Dec 14, 2022 | Opinion
The story of the embodied Christ in the Gospel of Matthew begins with controversy. Mary is found to be with child before she is married, something that in the first century world would have been not only scandalous, but life-ending for Mary. Joseph, rather than taking...
by George E. Oliver | Dec 7, 2022 | Opinion
The legendary Sandy Ray once preached of the nature of the prophetic and that it’s not so much there’s a voice crying in the wilderness, as it is that “the wilderness needs a voice.” Wild is a pretty apt description of what has been taking place in our nation and...
by Kali Cawthon-Freels | Nov 30, 2022 | Opinion
Since the early days of my faith journey, I have been enamored with the book of Psalms. There’s something magical about someone’s ability to tell a story through verse. So, whenever I use a Lectionary for any purpose, the Psalter selection for that Sunday is the first...
by Chase Caldwell | Nov 22, 2022 | Opinion
We’re back on flood watch. And we’d almost forgotten there was such a thing. After a summer of nation-wide droughts and dry-spells, the once-mighty Mississippi had shrunk from its swollen spring heights to a seeming trickle this fall. In my hometown of Vidalia,...
