by Michael Chancellor | Jan 8, 2021 | Opinion
While many of us have moved away from New Year resolutions, we should still set challenging goals for the short-time future and the longer-term future. We can build those goals from our values, interests, curiosity and wonder. Certainly, there may be other...
by Colin Harris | Jan 6, 2021 | Opinion
The events and themes of the biblical testimony of the pilgrimage of the covenant people provide us not only with landmarks that accent the church year, but also with metaphors that can be applied to the journey of faith, both personally and collectively. Famine,...
by Michael Chancellor | Jan 4, 2021 | Opinion
We need to expand our understanding of trauma. Often, attention goes to the military and their experiences of “soldiering,” but a wide range of experiences results in trauma. The child removed from a dangerous home only to be placed in a dangerous foster care...
by Ron Rolheiser | Dec 30, 2020 | Opinion
Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. That’s a pious axiom that doesn’t always hold up. Sometimes, the bad time comes, and we don’t learn anything. Hopefully, this present bad time, COVID-19, will teach us something and make us stronger. My hope is that...
by Jim Hopkins | Dec 29, 2020 | Opinion
The year 2020 is ending in a few days. Few will mourn its passing. It will be remembered as one of the most difficult years, if not the most difficult year, of our lives. Global pandemic. Racial injustice. Political turmoil. Economic uncertainty. The list is long....