From the editor: Greetings from San Juan
Greetings from San Juan, Puerto Rico where the air is warm, the water is blue, and the people are beautiful.
Is it time pastoral transitions made a transition?
The world has changed and so have pastoral transitions. It’s time for re-creation, reformation, resurrection, and even pruning.
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of answers to complicated questions
A powerful reexamination of heart and soul is what led our forebears to create the United States of America. I am not proposing simplistic answers to complicated issues like mass shootings, but we must start somewhere. May we have the courage to faithfully reexamine the difficult things in order to move toward that more perfect union.
True human encounter
The Incarnation is emblematic of God’s encounter with us. God’s human form in Christ is to be fully immersed in the human condition so that we too may know God.
Inspiring civil disobedience
Civil disobedience against injustice has long been a part of the world’s moral fabric. Sometimes it has come with magnificent public attention, while other times it passed unnoticed when only one person took a stand for what is right, true, just, and God-like. And yet, few will ever know the ripples of inspiration that one person, like Henry David Thoreau, can make or the impact they will radiate for generations to come.
The church and the consumer
In 2022, it seems as though we have the fundamental choice to either employ big data or reject the consumerist entanglement. My hope is that churches veer toward the latter and become messy places once again.