The Week Ahead: German pastor Martin Rinkart served in the walled town of Eilenburg during the horrors of the Thirty Years War of...

An Interview with A Christian Hip Hop Artist? A Brief History of Hip Hop Becky Blanchard writes this about Hip Hops beginnings. “Hip-hop...

A truly humble man is hard to find, yet God delights to honor such selfless people. Booker T. Washington, the renowned black educator,...

So, far this year, we have written about millennials, racism, urban ministry, and heaven.  My next test is to start a conversation on...

Most people instinctively avoid conflict, but as Margaret Heffernan shows us, good disagreement is central to progress. She illustrates...

Becoming Bridge Builders The story has been told of a believer, Frederick Nolan, who was fleeing from his enemies during a time of...

The Week Ahead: On Sunday our country was hit with another shockwave.  A man with a gun and a history of mental issues in his life went...

It was July 25th, 1993. The day after I had been installed at my first congregation in Berea Lutheran Church in Detroit, MI.  I remember...

A woman carries a cross shaped key to gates of heaven On November 1st every year the church stops to give thanks to God for all the...

It is common for Orthodox Jews to recite every morning and evening of every day Deuteronomy 6:4-9. This section of the Torah is written...

“We spend so much time listening to the things people are saying that we rarely pay attention to the things they don’t,” says poet and...

The Week Ahead: This weekend many congregations we will celebrate All Saints Day on Sunday.  One this day Christian celebration of All...

“God ain’t done with me yet” was my grandmother’s favorite saying as she got older.  She lived her life like the old man in this...

Today, we celebrate the anniversary of the Reformation. It was a world-shattering movement that began with Dr. Martin Luther and his 1517...

What is the one thing the church can never have too much of? Answer. Young families! How do you go about making this wish a reality? ...

Daniel Goleman, author of “Emotional Intelligence,” asks why we aren’t more compassionate more of the time. #Commpassion #TEDTalk

The Week Ahead: On Tuesday, October 31st we celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. It was a world-shattering movement that...

Becoming Bridge Builders The church is not a gallery where we exhibit the finest of Christians. No, it is a school where we educate and...

“Mentoring and disciplining this next generation is everything.”- Aspen Group CEO Ed Bahler, a founding partner of the Cornerstone...

Our biases can be dangerous, even deadly — as we’ve seen in the cases of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner, in Staten...