To highlight the Protestant reformation keeps the focus on our differences, rather than our similarities.
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To highlight the Protestant reformation keeps the focus on our differences, rather than our similarities.
Read moreI am grateful that our PCUSA denominational hymnal does not include the U.S. national anthem.
Read moreWill such a liturgy be used? It is hard to say.
Read moreThey say his sermon should have been more “appropriate”—meaning, I can only surmise, that he should have preached whiter.
Read moreAside from the singing, the entire service consisted of words.
Read moreSome people give up something for Lent—chocolate, or booze, or some other pleasure. Some people instead take on a discipline or a practice, like daily devotions or acts of mission. Whatever we decide to do, or not to do, it seems to me that the most important thing in these forty days is to listen to what God is saying to us.
Read moreGrowing up Presbyterian, we didn’t talk about her much.
Read moreThose who marry are called to a way of life “marked by grace, fidelity, and mutual respect.”
Read moreI admit to nursing a bit of envy when I think of the ways Catholic worshipers are formed.
Read moreWe hope and pray that this new edition of the Book of Common Worship will provide the church with liturgy that is theologically rich, poetically evocative, and imbued with the love and grace of God.
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