“I understand why the world has it’s doubts about the church,” says Judy Kincaid. “We brought it on ourselves with things like the crusades, the inquisition, our acceptance of segregation and our mistreatment of the...

“‘What are you looking for?’ These are the first words Jesus speaks in the gospel according to John…Christ’s inaugural question invites us to discern and articulate something significant about our lives, even our deepest desires....

“When I was a kid, we used to play a game on the school playground called ‘King of the Hill.’…Somebody would climb up on a mound of dirt at one corner of the playground and...

In today’s sermon, Debie Thomas, Minister of Lifelong Formation at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Palo Alto, California and blogger at Journey with Jesus, explores the parable of the “persistent widow” from Luke 18:1-8. This...

The Rev. Dr. Joy J. Moore, Professor of Biblical Preaching at Luther Seminary in Saint Paul, Minnesota, begins today’s sermon by quoting Elton John’s song, “If There’s A God In Heaven (What’s He Waiting For?)”...