Leaving Church, by Barbara Brown Taylor, is (somewhat ironically) full of enriching meditations for the church. When she left a twenty-year career as a priest and in essence also “left church,” Brown Taylor says she was compelled to let go [...]
Leaving Church, by Barbara Brown Taylor, is (somewhat ironically) full of enriching meditations for the church. When she left a twenty-year career as a priest and in essence also “left church,” Brown Taylor says she was compelled to let go [...]
Do you remember Garbage Pail Kids? I never collected them, but they were a hot item growing up. Each card character suffers from some ridiculous abnormality or terrible fate. Take “Adam Bomb,” or “Glandular Angela,” or “Half-Nelson,” for instance. Or, a [...]
We preachers have our most embarrassing moments. I imagine it’s true for musicians, too. The other night I witnessed one. Mumford & Sons’ lead singer Marcus Mumford, performing for a full house at Ryman Theater, in Nashville, Tennessee, first forgot [...]
The other day I was asked to be the back-up wedding officiant for someone who had obtained their certificate of ordination off the Internet. Another person in the conversation had chimed in that she had once officiated at a wedding, [...]
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