It's such a little place. That's an American bias, but so it goes.  It's a little sliver on the map, a slender fleck nestled...

The headlines have been particularly ugly, but they are not even close to the horror that lies within the articles. The ugly news comes ...

Over the years, the story of Jesus whomping on the moneychangers and the sellers of temple livestock has become one of my least favorite p...

In order to understand the conflict dynamics of the Presbyterian system of church polity and governance, it is first necessary to examine th...

This Sunday was a bit rough.  My sermon, which was technically a fundraising sermon, was brutal in it's frankness.  Leavened with humor,...

The second of the churchy books I've been tasked with reading deals with a question that is really quite significant.  The question is: ...

Earlier this week, there was a small demonstration here in DC. That's not even vaguely unusual. There's always a small demonstrati...

Interfaith struggles have never made a tremendous amount of sense to me. Given that pretty much all of the world's religious traditions...