Here’s my candidate for perhaps the biggest understatement of the year: the pandemic has been disorienting. I don’t think my experience has been exceptional but, even if it has just been me, the la...

Can persons from diverse traditions remain true to their distinctive religious commitments while participating in Christian worship?This is a huge question, obviously, and I begin with the disclaim...

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.1—Alice Walker As a child growing up in the African Metho...

The joy of a singing a favorite Christmas carol, the happiness of witnessing a baptism, the thrill of trumpets on Easter morning—readers of Liturgy will recognize such positive emotional responses ...

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One of the challenges of preaching is that it may not simply be teaching about God but can itself become a revelatory event in which listeners experience the presence of God. In Preaching the Prese...

Race and the culture of the United States are theological problems. The theologian I turn to in defense of this claim, Rudolf Bultmann, may strike some as a curious choice. Am I really going to con...

It was the first Sunday at my new appointment. I arrived early at the church where I was greeted by the sexton, who turned to introduce me to an older woman, the Trustees’ chairperson with whom he ...