by Dale K. Edmondson | Jun 4, 2020 | Opinion
My date book showed I was to attend a performance of Brahms’ Requiem one afternoon at San Francisco’s Davies Symphony Hall. The hall, of course, is closed; there was no performance. Yet can the Requiem somehow still lift my spirits? Donning the Bose headphones my...
by Mary Elizabeth Hanchey | Apr 9, 2020 | Opinion
To say that “being the church” is a topic of debate is generous. There are as many streams of thoughts – raging rapids, in fact, on the topic, as there are about parenting or healthy eating or what makes good barbecue. Certainty abounds among those who proclaim what...
by Alan Rudnick | Oct 30, 2019 | Opinion
Expressions of grief, support and lament over two very public deaths filled my Facebook feed recently. Both people were active in bringing a focus on mental health issues in communities. One was a professor of counseling, and the other was a well-known West Coast...
by Greg DeLoach | Mar 15, 2019 | Opinion
Walking onto the university campus, I listened to birds deep in song as the morning emerged from dark night; the sky not quite light and not quite dark. Rounding the corner to the building where my office is located stands one bright tree – a tulip tree full of...
by Elizabeth Nance-Coker | Dec 5, 2018 | Opinion
Advent is now and not yet – songs and groans, comfort and joy. In this Advent season of waiting, as we inhabit the now and the not yet, I invite you to lament during worship. Make space to bring experiences of pain, loss and brokenheartedness to God. Come alongside...
