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Meeting on the Common Ground of our Vulnerability

To say the obvious: We live in a time of upheaval and confusion. In response, many people want the church to insulate them from ambiguity and shelter them from anxiety; they want it to be a place where hard questions don’t intrude and disagreements don’t disturb....

Creation Groans and So Do We

Over the last few months, I’ve often traveled north on I-26/US 23 into the broken heart of Eastern Kentucky’s coal country.The land looks weary. There are gashes in the hillsides which huge machines have stripped bare not only of coal but of topsoil; peaks blasted...

Servant-Leadership

Servant-leadership has overarching purpose: to help people to become who they most truly are and to do what they are most deeply called to do. In 1919, D. J. DePree was named president of the company which soon became the Herman Miller Corporation (Miller was DePree’s...

Miscellany of Quotes

When I was in elementary and junior-high school, I looked forward to the arrival of the new edition of Readers’ Digest. I liked the jokes (“Laughter is the Best Medicine,” “Humor in Uniform,” and “Campus Comedy”) and enjoyed the challenge of the vocabulary-building...

Walking Together in Peace

In Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, Alice walked through the “wood of no names,” where individuals didn’t remember their own names and had little awareness of qualities which set them apart from others.  She encountered there...

The Stewardship of Anger

The anger is palpable, isn’t it? The presidential primary campaigns of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders have, in different  ways, focused and channeled a lot of the anger people feel.Trump and Sanders diverge radically from each other in their fundamental...