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Posts Categorized: Dialogue
March 26, 2024
This piece is part of an ongoing series focused on the themes of “connection” and “community.” Follow the blog or check our Facebook page to see the other posts in the series as they’re published. The 51st International conference on Dialogue between Jews, Christians, and Muslims (JCM) on ‘What is Home’ was held in Kigali, Rwanda from 5th February… Read more »
October 24, 2023
The following prayer was written by Adebisi Shofu, MDiv who is a Ruling Elder in Coastlands Presbytery. It offers her own hopes and prayerful perspective concerning the conflict unfolding in the Middle East. The Acting Stated Clerk of the PC(USA) has also offered a statement on the conflict, which you can also read here. O… Read more »
March 24, 2020
How do we deal with dissenters? by N. Graham Standish The session was in the midst of a future-changing discussion. Our “Future of Worship” task force had given them their final proposal after spending 15 months discerning how to adapt our worship to a changing world. They had studied different kinds of worship and… Read more »
January 12, 2018
Mystery Box Outsiders wonder what’s inside church by Richard Hong I used to live near a business that had an innocuous name – I forget what it was. There would usually be just a few cars parked outside. The windows had blinds covering them. I never figured out what it was. Was it a… Read more »
February 9, 2017
Is today really that bad? Was yesterday really that good? By N. Graham Standish We tend to look at the past wistfully, the present critically, and the future fearfully. But as Christians we are called to look at life through a different lens. We are called to look at the past realistically, the present faithfully,… Read more »
February 1, 2017
Talk amongst yourselves Living reconciliation means having hard conversations By Ty Gomez As I approach my 25th year as an attorney, it strikes most people as an odd confession when I admit that I don’t really enjoy conflict. Especially since I’m a litigator, and that means that virtually everyone who contacts me is angry at… Read more »
November 17, 2016
Patience and the Praying Mantis An invitation to pray for humility in the President-Elect and the church By Anita Coleman “Dear God, let me run toward, rather than away from, correction. Reduce my pride, increase my humility, and help me be malleable to good advice. Amen.” That’s a prayer from the book The President’s Devotional… Read more »
October 26, 2016
Cuba: Reality, Hope and the Gospel By Antonio (Tony) Aja This time we had running water everyday for the morning shower. When I first visited Cuba back in 2004 for the first time since I left in 1967, I wrote an article for the denomination where I used the unpredictability of having water in the… Read more »
February 4, 2016
Stories of mustard seeds and mountains How the gospel showed up in a hospital roomWhat 80 years of church will do to a person by Sue Washburn I probably should not have had that third shot of espresso. My mind was going a million miles an hour. I paced as I made phone calls to… Read more »
January 20, 2016
One young person’s subversive thoughts on church and society The FDA still doesn’t want gay bloodA recent change to policy underscores continuing discomfort with sex in our society and church. by Tad Hopp Recently, the FDA lifted the decades-old ban on gay men donating blood. This ban was put into effect at the height… Read more »