Last Saturday was commencement. It is always a joy to see people I’ve taught sent out with their degrees, eager to serve Christ and the Church. This year, as well as my M.Div. and M.A.s, I had two Doctor of Ministry students graduating. Here they are in a group selfie from just before marching in for the […]
Interview with Rich Hansen, author of Paradox Lost
I met Richard P. Hansen when I was giving a set of lectures on missional Christian community at First Presbyterian Church in Columbia Missouri where he was then pastor. I was really excited to hear about Paradox Lost, a book he was writing about paradox in the Christian faith — and now it is in print! May […]
Finding a Good Children’s Bible
Reading to my children is one of my great joys as a parent. Helping my children know, and love, and trust God is one of my great hopes as a Christian. Enter that sometimes vexing genre, the “Children’s Bible.” On many levels a children’s Bible is a great idea. Reading the Bible, uncut, to my five and […]
I Interview Laura Alary, “Make Room: A Child’s Guide to Lent and Easter”
This week I interview Laura Alary: a very dear friend, and a children’s author who has written a growing shelf of books. She takes both children and theology very seriously. My kids and I totally dig her books. Since her new kids’ book Make Room: A Child’s Guide to Lent and Easter is coming out just […]
Review: A Goodness I Cannot Explain
Imagine: You start having odd symptoms. Your doctor does a scan of your head. There is a tumor. Two treatments are possible: each has very serious risks. How do you decide? That is the situation Rev. Catherine Stewart faced a few years back. The journey that follows is the subject of her new book, A Goodness […]
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