Our work as Christian leaders is to cultivate thriving communities that are foretastes of the kingdom of God. In this series of reflections, C. Kavin Rowe explores the Acts of the Apostles, which offers a picture of what the church needs to continue being the church.
God's people behave as if playing the final minute of a basketball game, stalling the action, because they are afraid. Instead, they should step out of the huddle and spread the gospel, says a pastor.
A stuffed bunny who has served to teach dozens of students how to perform the sacrament of baptism reminds a pastor that we never celebrate the sacrament in isolation from a history that begins at creation and continues into the present and on toward the new Jerusalem.
She never expected old hymns to bring "showers of blessing" on a hot summer Sunday in East Texas. But that's the power of music to connect us -- a gift of grace, says a Christian writer.
Five years after a breast cancer diagnosis that at first appeared to be an immediate death sentence, a theologian works to live in the space between death and resurrection.
The new version of “Godzilla” reminds a pastor that stories are always in danger of being sanitized, whether a monster movie warning of atomic danger or the sacred story of Jesus.
Getting to know the creatures in his backyard prompts a Christian writer to consider the power of names. Authentic relationships are crucial, and we cannot truly care for something that we do not truly know.
Music breaks open hard ground, preparing it for a seed to be planted, says the Canadian singer-songwriter and Christian musician.
La Lapidation de saint Étienne, painting by Charles LeBrun (1619-1690)
Final essay in a seven-part series. If we expect to see the kingdom of God, writes the New Testament scholar, we should expect to suffer.
As a tough winter gives way to spring, a pastor on an island cut off many times during the season wonders if her church has fared a little too well in isolation.