by Mary Dyer | Aug 21, 2025 | Opinion
The eighth-century BCE prophet Isaiah heard the following words from God: “Learn to do good; seek justice, rescue the oppressed, defend the orphan, plead for the widow” (Isaiah 1:17). They are just as important today as they were almost three millennia ago when the...
by Leah Davis | Aug 19, 2025 | Opinion
On a recent Sunday, I confessed to my suburban Washington, D.C. congregation something I had never done before in nearly 20 years of preaching and pastoring: I scrapped the previously written sermon and started over on Saturday night. Sure, I have altered sermons the...
by Erin Parks | Aug 1, 2025 | Opinion
As I have watched the news, written, prayed and moved about my life during this summer in which tyrants and evil seem to be “getting their way,” my first instinct is to rely on my heavily pragmatic Protestant upbringing. What can I do when the world is burning? I turn...
by Grace Ji-Sun Kim | Jul 16, 2025 | Opinion
As a child, I read the “Picture Bible,” a large, beautifully illustrated and colorful book that brought biblical stories to life. Later, my father ordered the three-volume cartoon version and I eagerly read it cover to cover. The vivid images helped me engage with...
by Tyler Tankersley | Jul 1, 2025 | Opinion
Missouri may have one of the strangest state nicknames. Legend has it that in 1899, a Democratic congressman (a species that now borders on extinction) named William Duncan Vandiver said, “I come from a state that raises corn and cotton and cockleburs and Democrats,...
