When George Carey was the Archbishop of Canterbury, he told about the time when he was serving a local church.  A university professor and his wife asked Carey about enrolling their children in Sunday school and attending worship.  Knowing that the couple was agnostics and not members of t...

Stanley Hauerwas, who teaches moral theology at Duke Divinity School, and in his book In Good Company, wrote: “Christianity is connections…

To be a Christian is to be joined, to be put in connection with others so that our stories cannot be told without somehow also their stories being told. ...

From the world of sports has come a new expression, “My bad.” I have noticed, while watching a sports event on television, that when an athlete makes a mistake in the game, sometimes that athlete will pat his or her chest and say, “My bad,” indicating that he or she made an error or committed a foul...

“Life is difficult,” said Scott Peck in his popular book The Road Less Traveled. He spoke the truth, and that truth hit home with me a few years ago. During one weekend, two young women I had known died unexpectedly, one of them a suicide. I had known her since she was a child, and I had performed t...