Jesus comes to us over and over. One weekend in early June 1967, my family traveled from Virginia to the small town of Roxbury, Pa.,
We pulled into the parking lot of a 100-year-old black Baptist church in Durham, N.C., St. John’s Missionary Baptist Church …
Have you been looking for something different to do for your Bible study?
Every year we pull out the Cadbury, peanut butter, painted and plastic eggs to celebrate what ultimately is the gruesome R-rated story of the public torture and execution of a human being. Why do we coat Jesus’ story in chocolate and bunnies? I’m not sure why you do, but at our house, my son isn’t old enough to understand death …
Carol decided to try an experiment. Several of her friends at work were giving up things for Lent, and she decided to join them (even though her church didn’t practice Lent). To her husband’s surprise, she gave up shopping. Once a week she did grocery shopping for her family but never bought anything for herself for 40 days …
In the late 1980s, as Cold War tensions between East and West were beginning to thaw, thousands of German-speaking Soviet citizens emigrated from Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Kirgiz and Siberia to West Germany, where the German government welcomed them and granted immediate status as German citizens …
Last July, I experienced an a-ha moment while attending the Archives Leadership Institute at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, an event that brings together 25 midcareer archivists from a wide variety of settings …
What does a bestselling murder mystery series from Sweden have to teach us about the importance of journalism to a democratic society? Quite a bit …
