Consider these stanzas from the opening section of Walt Whitman’s Song of the Open Road: Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before me, The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose. … (Still here I carry my old delicious burdens, I carry...
Program Director Adam Borneman speaks with Andrew Yeager and Elizabeth Lynn (Lake Institute on Faith and Giving) about our cultural fragmentation, the challenge of the attention economy, and their view from the pew as active laity. Listen here....
“The next time you put on a dinner, don’t just invite your friends and family and rich neighbors, the kind of people who will return the favor. Invite some people who never get invited out, the misfits from the wrong side of the tracks. You’ll...
As we approach Holy Week, we share a hymn by James Montgomery (1771-1854), who was born in Scotland to Irish parents. When he was just five years old, James’ parents left him in care of a Moravian community in Ireland, while they answered a call...
Program Director Adam Borneman continues the conversation with Esther Sanders and the Rev. Morgan Burge (Roswell Presbyterian, GA) about how to be in community with those who are unlike us, the underlying issue of shame, and the role of fear in church and society these...
What the world needs now Is love, sweet love It's the only thing that there's just too little of What the world needs now Is love, sweet love No, not just for some, but for everyone Lord, we don't need another mountain There are mountains and hillsides enough to climb There are oceans...
The church is not asked to invent an identity; it is to live the life of Jesus Christ in the world. - Jurgen Moltmann How can you just leave me standing Alone in a world that's so cold? - Prince, When Doves Cry A recent feature article about Prince included the...
Program Director Adam Borneman speaks with the Rev. Morgan Burge (Roswell Presbyterian, GA) and Esther Sanders about the assumptions that churches make, what small groups can - and can't - do, and how important it is to be known. Listen here....
A unique feature of the Gospel of John is that Jesus begins his ministry not with a theological claim or quotation from Scripture, but rather a question: “What are you looking for?” (1:38) Things are quite different with John the Baptist, the other main character in...