Could spiritual practices help young adults struggling with violence?
My daughters were in early elementary school 15 years ago, when the mass shooting at Virginia Tech took place 70 miles down the road from...
Dorothy C. Bass: Christian practices and a way of life abundant
Twenty-five years ago, the book “Practicing Our Faith: A Way of Life for a Searching People,” compiled and edited by Dorothy C. Bass, initiated a conversation...
Francis Collins: Science is ‘a glimpse of God’s mind’
Having led the international team that mapped the human genome, Francis Collins said of that work: “We had now seen the language that God...
John Swinton: Helping Christians with mental health issues starts with better language
In the pandemic, churches may find that more and more congregants are struggling with mental health issues, but Christians haven’t always been the best...
Ministry on death and dying teaches people how to plan for the end of life
By Phillip Martin
“It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death -- ought to decide, indeed, to earn one’s death by...
Mel Williams: Singing our way to hope
By Mel Williams
I come from a long line of singers. I remember as a child gathering around the piano with my parents to sing old gospel...
Andrea Palpant Dilley: Slacking off and the call to Sabbath
By Andrea Palpant Dilley
At a conference I attended last year, Richard Foster, the Quaker spiritual writer and author of "Celebration of Discipline," spoke on the perils of...