Head and Heart

( This photograph was taken from the bulletin board of St. Mary the Virgin University Church, Oxford, England .) Through the years they hav...

I preached last Sunday. I haven’t done that since Christmas. It felt good—very good. I used the gospel lectionary text for the day. John 3....

Some church slipped a card under my door inviting me to their Easter events. In bold headlines they proclaimed: Easter for Families! What ab...

Ball players get frustrated when the coach consigns them to the bench. Who wants to sit on a bench when you could be out there on the court ...

“How hard it is to escape from places! However carefully one goes, they hold you—you leave bits of yourself fluttering on the fences, little...

The story I want to share with you has been around since 1987. Emily Perl Kingsley is the author. She is the mother of a Down Syndrome child...

Yesterday at 11:00AM I drove down to an Episcopal Church for their Ash Wednesday service. I chose a church where no one knew me. I just want...