An Inclusive Church Will Be a Growing Church Healthy churches pay attention to the people God has placed around them. When ministry reflects the realities of the surrounding community, congregations bear fruit; when it does not, decline often follows. In this piece from his new book An Aura of Hope,
Jacques Maritain (1882-1973) The political importance of Maritain is that he made what he took to be a Thomistic case both for the modern state as an institution through whose structures and procedures the common good of political society can be realized and for a conception of human rights which
Maurine When Joseph became vizier of Egypt, second only to Pharoah and wearing his ring of authority, he also got a new name that doesn’t exactly roll off our English-speaking tongues. It is Zaphnath-paaneah and what it lacks in clarity, it more than makes up in its meaning which is
“For what shall we pray?” is a weekly post inviting individuals, groups, and congregations to lift up our world in prayer. This resource is prepared by a variety of leaders in the ELCA and includes prayer prompts, upcoming events and observances, and prayer suggestions from existing denominational worship materials. You
In senior living facilities across Spring Hill and Columbia, something beautiful is happening. At The Church at Station Hill, our Senior Care Ministry is bringing church to those who may no longer be able to attend on their own. Week after week, volunteers walk through the doors of local facilities
St. George’s on St. Charles Avenue What if they don’t come back? The connection cards are on your desk. Someone on staff has formatted a spreadsheet. You’ve been told there’s a 48-hour window — that this is when the harvest happens, when the people who showed up on Easter Sunday
With wry bemusement I learned that Rian Johnson’s third Knives Out installment would have as its protagonist a young-ish boxing priest in Albany, New York, for I am possibly the only person in the world who matches that description. In Wake Up Dead Man Fr. Jud Duplenticy (Josh O’Connor), an
Shusaku Endo (1923-1996) was a Japanese novelist who, despite receiving his country’s highest literary awards, saw himself as a cultural misfit. Estranged as a child from his father in a deeply patriarchal society, he converted to Catholicism at age twelve, resisted the militaristic education of wartime Imperial Japan, endured loneliness