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Adam Nicholas Phillips: Chris, tell us a little bit about yourself. Christopher LaTondresse: As the son of American evangelical missionary

Read “Faith, hunger, politics, chicken & waffles: a conversation between Chris LaTondresse and Adam Phillips” Read “Creating Healthy Sustainable Communities:

Introductory note: In medieval art, as in this contemporary painting, Mary has been regularly depicted with a book in her

Introductory note: In medieval art, as in this contemporary painting, Mary has been regularly depicted with a book in her

Read Abigail Henrich’s Essay, “Bearing the Word and Finding One’s Authority” Read Jerusha Neal’s Essay, “Laboring to Speak From the

I read the Nov. 2 communiqué of the Presbyterian Board of Pensions with substantial interest – personal, family, and communal. 

Cultural shifts, including information delivery systems, impact faith formation from age to age. The Christian faith, a person-to-person and household-to-household

The first thing to catch my attention in Beth Herrinton-Hodge’s post was in the title – the word “formation.”  A

Read Ginny Harville Baker’s Essay, “Forming Faith in Shifting Times” Read Candace C. Hill’s Essay, “Hopeful Reminders for Nurturing Faith

Thirteen weeks ago, my life changed. When the local newspaper told my story, the first line read, “Brian Ellison isn’t

I got a phone call from a young mom a couple of weeks ago asking me how to talk to

I was feeling particularly proud of myself today because I had the marvelous idea to take my spiritual direction client

Read Marla Martin Rotman’s Essay, “Labyrinth Walk” Read Meg Peery McLaughlin’s Essay, “In Life and in Death We Belong to

Intro One of the vexing issues the universal Church has to respond to is Sexual trauma. West Virginia University describes

Human trafficking is not an isolated issue.  There are complex connections to economy, gender issue, social dynamics, law and foreign

The effects of incest are both intense and devastating as in addition to the guilt and shame victims feel about

Child sexual abuse occurs when an individual who is older or stronger than the child uses his or her power,

Read Jhanderys Dotel’s Essay, “Child Sexual Abuse and Trafficking: The Challenge to the Church” Read Sadekie Lyttle-Forbes’ Essay, “No More

In the summer of 2003 I participated in three weeks of orientation to prepare for international service with the Evangelical

Mission work in an overseas setting taught me much!  Above all, I learned much more about myself. I left Australia

Read Ian Graue’s Essay, “Adjusting to life after overseas mission work” Read Brian E. Konkol’s Essay, “Grown Local and Transformed

In her critically acclaimed book, Sexuality and the Black Church, noted scholar and theologian Kelly Brown Douglas calls for a

Reproductive justice assumes that women can and should make decisions about their reproductive health—including decisions about if they want to

Read Cheryl B. Anderson’s Essay, “Christians and Reproductive Justice: Hearing New Voices” Read Toni M. Bond Leonard’s Essay “Standing at

I’m a youth ministry guy. I was an un-ordained youth ministry director before going to seminary for two years, an

Maybe it is connected to Einstein’s theory of relativity, but I am convinced that almost all other children in the

Read Rebecca Kirkpatrick’s essay “Worshipping with OTHER People’s Children.” Read Adam Walker Cleveland’s essay “Children in Worship – Thoughts, Questions,

Strasbourg has been described as the “ultimate European city” where France and Germany collide.   This should really come as no

Cynthia asked me to write last spring, and I didn’t give it much thought when I said yes. I probably

As I’ve been watching the coverage of the national conventions in the last two weeks, I’ve been thinking about how

Read John Senior’s essay “Thoughts on the Office of Ordinary Citizen.” Read Katie Mulligan’s essay “Struggling for the Words.” Read

The choice to boycott may seem drastic. But to the Palestinians whose land is being exploited for its natural resources,

Opponents to divestment have come out swinging. Fortunately, or unfortunately, they are mainly hitting air. This summer, the Presbyterian Church

Read Unbound’s Essay, “Debunking the Myth of Positive Investment” Read Unbound’s Essay, “Opting for Boycott” From behind a large concrete

Getting into the conversation I am approaching this conversation from a different place, neither from South Africa nor from Palestine.

In his article, Clint Le Bruyns argues for a pedagogical approach to public theology, arguing strongly that the ‘public sphere’

Dr. Clint Le Bruyns, in his article, mentions a critically important aspect of theological science, namely, it’s relevance to the

Read Margriet Westers’ Essay, “Transforming the Community from which the Theology Arises” Read Sam Slatcher’s  Essay, “Response to Clint Le

When I gave my first report as the moderator of the Commission for Women at the Reformed Church in America’s

Read Stacey Midge’s Essay, “Ministry in an ‘Untenable Situation’: The RCA Conscience Clause” Although it happened almost ten years ago,

Director’s note: In this final part of our conversation, we discuss race, James Cone’s critique of Niebuhr, and President Obama’s

Director’s note:  On this third day of our conversation, we discuss political prophets and evangelists, pragmatic prophets, and whether withdrawal

Director’s note:  We discuss The Irony of Barack Obama, a new book by Peter Josephson and R. Ward Holder, this

Read Part II Read Part III Read Part IV Director’s note:  This week, the conversation on ecclesio.com is on The

I recently came to realize that pursuing peace and justice is synonymous with being the church – or at least

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about the myriad of gods in the ancient world, the pantheon of local deities

When looking into Reformed Theology and the Liturgy it is important to observe that this shapes how the body of

Read Louis Ford’s Essay, “Grace and Peace” Read Mike Kopchick’s Essay, “The Dying god of Peace” Read Krista Kopchick’s Essay,

Then Moses went out and spoke these words to all Israel:  “I am now a hundred and twenty years old

It can be life-giving, energy-renewing, and most of all surprising. From Theresa’s introductory blog. Five years ago I was ready

Read Erika Funk’s Essay, “Switching from Pastor to pastor” Read  Abby King-Kaiser’s Essay, “Promised Land Fantasies” It seems that parish

The issue of immigration is especially hot in America now. There seems to be no definite way of dealing with

The “establishment” was afraid of change. Things were different all around them. There were new people in the society with

Read Antonio Aja’s Essay, “Exodus 1:1-22 – ‘Midwives in our Midst’” Read David Nzioka’s Essay, “Would Jesus Have Done it

Irony: “…exactly the reverse of what was expected.” The Rectification of Names Confucius, the great philosopher and social reformer of

Theologian Walter Brueggemann’s recently updated volume The Prophetic Imagination opens with the author’s reflections on why the Prophets might have

Read Don Wagner’s Essay, “Embodying Prophetic Consciousness” Read Walt Davis’ Essay, “Ironies of Israeli Apartheid” In February 2012, from the

“The wind blows where it wants to. You hear its sound, but you don’t know where it comes from or

Our Social Justice Journey Group has walked together through the Gospel of Luke to learn how the gospel impacts our

When our Journey Group had the privilege of meeting with Diana Butler Bass, she spoke about three words that I

Read Mark Milkamp’s Essay, “Belong. Behave. Believe.” Read Kenita Ruth Harris’ Essay, “The Immediacy of Justice – The Fierce Urgency

Read Chris Iosso’s article as published on Unbound In this fine piece Iosso sorts through the rumors of war cir­cu­lat­ing among us.

Read Chris Iosso’s article as published on Unbound Chris Iosso’s excel­lent arti­cle is one that we all should be shar­ing

Read Bruce Gillette’s Essay, “A Response to ‘Iran Bombing Threat’” Read Ray Roberts’ Essay, “A Response to ‘Iran Bombing Threat’”

Dalit Theology emerged in India in the 1980s as a theology of liberation for the ‘Dalits’ who were considered as

Why dalit feminism? That’s the question any layman in the church would ask. Being a theologian who for many years

Read Salome Neeraja’s Essay, “Dalit Feminism” Read Peniel Rajkumar’s Essay, “Dalit Theology” Over the next few days, a series of

What we call religion is the co-existing and cooperation of our various feelings of God as we bring them together.

“We know what art is! It’s paintings of horses!” Jack Donaghy The assertion, “Theology is art” is as good a

Read Rocky Supinger’s Essay, “Theology as Art” Read Mihee Kim-Kort’s Essay, “Pneumatological God-Talk: The Poetry of Theology” In my work

Let’s be clear at the beginning that in order to understand the OWS movement fruitfully in the light of God

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(The following is an editorial from social ethicist, Chris Iosso, also appearing in Unbound: An Interactive Journal of Christian Social

(The following is a reflection from seminarian, Emily Morgan. This article will appear in Unbound: An Interactive Journal of Christian

Read Emily Morgan’s Essay, “The Spirituality of the Church” Read Chris Iosso’s Essay, “Is the NCC General Secretary’s Job Impossible?”

Between the day of the Kings and the day of Dr. King, we offer you our best wishes in this

Read Philip Vinod Peacock’s Essay, “An Alternative Look at Discipleship” Read Teresa Chavez Sauceda’s Essay, “Resistance as the Basis of

My children could probably recite my annual anti-material Christmas rant from memory!  It usually occurred in the car (captive audience)

Dissent is a central Christian virtue; we as Christians are called not to be conformed to the world but to

Read Carola Tron Urban’s Essay, “My Spiritual Journey in Pastoral Ministry” Some years ago I was visiting a seminary professor

As I think about women in pastoral ministry, I would like to share some of my experiences as one of

Read Kathryn Poethig’s essay, “Religion and Globalization” Read Patricia Sheerattan-Bisnauth’s essay, “Globalization: What’s at Stake?” Globalization: Our Era’s “Grande Idée”?

“I thought you might be interested in this,” It was an email from Valentina, a smart Global Studies major who

As Mala walks home with slumped shoulders and weary body, she is deeply troubled about what lies ahead for her

Read Angie Mabry-Nauta’s essay, “Let the Children Come” Read Christopher Duncanson-Hales essay, “Manifest Grave Sin” Ok, so let’s get this

In 2005 Canadian Member of Parliament for Timmins-James Bay was refused communion by his parish priest for his support of

One day some parents brought their children to Jesus so he could lay his hands on them and pray for

Read Noushin Framke’s Essay, “Switching Costs” Read Lisa Larges’ Essay, “Questions at the Intersection” Read Emily West’s Essay, “A Faithful

I first became acquainted with members of Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) at the 2008 General Assembly of the Presbyterian

Life, of course, is always more complicated, than we’d like for it to be. When we set about thinking through

“The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.” Audre Lorde Lorde asks, “What does it mean when the tools

I’ve often wondered what my life would be like in a world without social injustice. So much of my time

When my son was in preschool, his teacher said that she thinks my son would make a good lawyer one

There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and

Read Randal Jelks’ Essay, “President Barack Obama has Been a Good President” Read John Senior’s Essay, Calling Out Common Goods”