A man was talking about his Friends Church.  “It is hard to identify it as a Friends Church,” he said, “it is basically generic evangelical.”

A woman was speaking of the Christian college her daughter attends: “I don’t know what you could call it religiously,” she said, “I guess you could ca...

One of the more refreshing experiences of my ministry was serving for eight years in Indiana on a United Methodist-Lutheran (ELCA) dialogue team.  Brought together by the bishops in Indiana, the team was exploring how the two denominations might work toward full communion.  This was at the...

    One of the more discouraging experiences of my ministry was serving on the Jurisdictional Nominating Committee several quadrennia ago.  We really didn't nominate.  We placed different sized pegs into different-sized peg holes.  Because there were limited slots on th...

      Enough of the votes on the constitutional amendments have now been reported by the annual conferences so that it is possible to announce the results.  The constitutional amendments that deal with two issues of special interest to evangelicals have failed.  &n...

    Did we miss something or did the Episcopal General Convention, meeting in Anaheim, CA, in mid-July just disconnect itself from the rest of the Christian world?

    The week started off with Episcopal Presiding Bishop Katherine Jefferts Schori declaring it is “her...

  July 9 is the 500^th birthday of John Calvin and an appropriate time to give honor to one of the church’s greatest theologians.  Historians debate these things, of course, but a good argument can be made that Calvinism, with its understanding of the sovereignty of God as the or...