“Imagine that your new pastor shows up disguised as a homeless man with a ‘Duck Dynasty’ kind of beard and a matching T-shirt…wearing old shorts that have holes in them, and if you got too...

“In today’s long reading from Luke 8:26-56, Jesus crosses three different boundaries to save three very different people from three very different crises. In each case, he restored that saved person to his/her community,” begins...

“When I was a 10th grader, I suddenly, out of the blue, was diagnosed with cancer. My high school German teacher came to see me after my amputation. He gave me a wallet with German...

There are a lot of things we can lose in life. Here’s a list from the Rev. Dr. Alyce M. McKenzie, Professor of Homiletics at Perkins School of Theology. She says, “We can lose direction,...

No matter how we are baptized, “there are repercussions for the rest of our lives. From our baptism day forward, we are marked as Christ’s own forever. Nothing can or ever will erase that basic...