by Brenda McWilliams | Apr 6, 2023 | Feature-, Opinion
I was hiking solo, plodding along the trail and occasionally, carefully, picking my way through the gnarly roots poised at a moment’s notice to grab a toe or entrap a heel and take me to the ground. It was quiet. No chatter with hiking friends nor playlist pulsing...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Apr 5, 2023 | Feature, Opinion
The Christmas narratives in the Bible are unique, but not conflicted like the resurrection narratives. Yes, we typically conflate the timeline by placing the Matthean magi who arrived from somewhere in the distant darkness bearing gifts alongside the Lukan shepherds...
by Amy Butler | Mar 30, 2023 | Feature-, Opinion
Someone asked me last week what I had given up for Lent this year. I’m a bit embarrassed to say that her question caught me off guard because I haven’t given anything up for Lent, and I’m her new pastor. I suppose I could easily compose an entire list of excuses for...
by James Gordon | Mar 29, 2023 | Feature-, Opinion
What are we to make of the contrast between the one who “was in very nature God” and the one who “became obedient to death – even death on a cross”? Why would “he who did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped” make himself nothing and take the form of a...
by Aurelia Dávila Pratt | Mar 22, 2023 | Feature, Opinion
The season of Lent is a paradox in many ways. During Lent, we practice the spiritual work of waiting, while also continuing in our liberative resurrection work. We move toward Easter while also being mindful that the power, mystery and glory of it is with us already....
