by Ron Rolheiser | Sep 23, 2021 | Opinion
A woman shared her anxiety about the death of her brother with me at a recent workshop I was leading. Her older brother had died from the COVID-19 virus before there were vaccines for it and had died because he had dangerously exposed himself to catching the virus....
by Jana Peterson | Jul 1, 2021 | Opinion
We can’t keep doing the same things over and over while crossing our fingers hoping for a different outcome. A chapel speaker during my high school years put it this way, “If we always do what we’ve always done, we’ll always get what we’ve always got.” This insight...
by Starlette Thomas | May 24, 2021 | Opinion, The Raceless Gospel Initiative
“Do you know Jesus in the pardoning of your sins?” The answer to that question was all that mattered when I was growing up in Pensacola, Florida; Foley, Alabama; and Buffalo, New York. No, my parents weren’t in the military, though my uncles and an aunt did serve. My...
by Jana Peterson | Mar 24, 2021 | Opinion
We celebrate what is traditionally known as Palm Sunday on the sixth Sunday of Lent. Here is my paraphrase of the Palm Sunday narrative featured in the lectionary texts this week: As Jesus rode the young colt into Jerusalem, People came from all around to honor him....
by John D. Pierce | Mar 9, 2021 | Opinion
Some Christians delight in keeping the clubhouse of faith well guarded. They insist that only those who respond properly to their multi-step “plan of salvation” are heaven bound. All others are apostate and likely reprobate. Recently, however, some of these...
