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Paula Stone Williams and Jonathan S. Williams interviewed on ‘Red Table Talk’

Posted October 9th, 2019

After spending 60 years as a man, Paul Williams came out to his family as transgender, becoming Paula. The married father of three was a prominent evangelical pastor before transitioning and recognized that transitioning would not be an easy process, personally or professionally. Nonetheless, “I’d been called [to transition], and you reject a call at your own peril,” Paula said.

The Christian case against unity

Posted October 8th, 2019

Layton E. Williams knows something about living in the margins.

New devotional perfect for the literature lover in your life

Posted September 17th, 2019

We read for entertainment, but we also read to learn something about ourselves, the world, and the Divine.

Reading the Bible over the course of a year

Posted September 10th, 2019

Westminster John Knox Press has published two newly revised resources by James E. Davidson for designing a yearlong Bible reading program

New book combats misunderstanding of Islam in America

Posted August 20th, 2019

From the Iranian Revolution to the attacks on September 11, 2001, questions and fears about Islam have proliferated American Christian life for decades. Yet more recently, the tangle of Christian-Muslim relations has become more complicated, with those in power mainstreaming Islamophobia as a path to political and societal power.

What happens when you invite death along for the ride?

Posted August 13th, 2019

The same week her brother died unexpectedly, spiritual travel writer and Episcopal deacon Lori Erickson moved her mother into a memory-care facility. Suddenly faced with the existential question of death, she set out on a quest, her own tutorial in death.

Just Worship event coming to Austin seminary Sept. 30-Oct. 2

Posted August 9th, 2019

The second annual Just Worship event will be held Sept. 30-Oct. 2 at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary. Like the first one at Columbia Theological Seminary this promises to an extraordinary time led by stirring preachers, exceptional musicians and talented workshop leaders.

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