by Mitch Randall | Apr 8, 2021 | Opinion
Gallup reported a significant decline in membership at American churches, synagogues, and mosques in 2020. In a little over two decades, membership in faith communities dropped from 70% in 1999 to 47% in 2020. There are numerous reasons for this decline, from the rise...
by John D. Pierce | Mar 23, 2021 | Opinion
American evangelicals love to love — at times, quite widely. They give generously to “foreign missions,” with hope some unknown, lost souls in faraway lands will be rescued from eternal damnation. Many will take a trip — and pay their own expenses — to help dig a well...
by Fred Guttman | Mar 23, 2021 | Opinion
We have a wonderful family in our congregation wherein the mother is from the Philippines and the father is Jewish. The four boys in the family are being raised as Jews. Last week, the 13-year-old son, whose Bar Mitzvah Torah portion is from Leviticus, revised his...
by Lacey Fitch-Ondracek | Mar 22, 2021 | Opinion
Words have power; they can carry freedom or they can carry weight. We often forget that power also resides in names. Our names are what we closely identify with in places of comfort and places of estrangement. Knowing someone’s name can allow them to feel safe and...
by Ron Rolheiser | Feb 8, 2021 | Opinion
Anne Lamont wrote, “You can safely assume you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.” Those are words worth contemplating, on all sides of the political and religious divide today. We live in a time of bitter...
