Sam Laurent: Peanuts, Cracker Jacks and the game
Writers often compare baseball parks to cathedrals, but that misses the real point: the game. And so it is with worship, writes a theologian and baseball fan.
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Mark Ralls: A conspiracy of ravens, and other stories
Tales of human saints and saintly animals aren’t just legends of ancient heroes but rather a vision of shalom, writes the senior minister of Centenary United Methodist Church in Winston-Salem, N.C.
Christopher A. Beeley: Constant is the call for leadership
Leadership has been a great need in every age of the church, a new challenge in every generation. For the basics of how to do it well, look to the wisdom of the early church, says the Yale patristics scholar.
James Howell: Lessons in disappointment
Disappointment can be debilitating. But it can also teach us about Christian witness.
C. Kavin Rowe: Cultivating resilience in Christ-shaped leaders
Resilience in the Christian sense is not toughness. It is a lived hope, a way to keep getting up again that has its roots in God’s permanent faithfulness.
Noelle York-Simmons: No hands but ours
An Episcopal priest spends her sabbatical photographing people’s hands as they receive communion and reaffirms her belief that the church is indeed thriving.
C. Kavin Rowe: Making connections as the work of Christ-shaped leaders
Christian leaders cannot compartmentalize their lives, because Christ is the Lord of all -- so all things must be seen in relation to Christ.
Christine D. Pohl: Living into the practice of truthfulness
In this excerpt from “Living into Community: Cultivating Practices That Sustain Us,” the theologian and ethicist explores what it means to live truthfully, one of the four practices at the heart of thriving Christian communities.
Wesley Hill: Leading with Luther
Martin Luther reminds Christian leaders of their most basic task -- to embody the truth that God is known in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus.
Mark Ralls: The scientist and the theology student
During his morning runs with a fellow student in Germany, a Christian ponders his friend the atheist’s question: When did life begin?