We’ve Always Done it This Way
I can just see the exasperation on the face of Jesus as he is having this dialogue with his friends. He wants to go out fishing with them, but they have been o...
Author: Fr. Peter
Faith communities urge U.S. to resettle more Syrian refugees
Church World Service (CWS), Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, and other faith communities are urging the U.S. government to resettle 100,000 Syrian refu...
Civil War Reconstruction @ 150
A new blog has been launched that will chronicle the effects of the period after the Civil War known as Reconstruction. The authors purpose for writing this bl...
The Pope is Coming
Any discussion of the United States being founded as a Christian nation needs to include the definition of what a Christian actually was. How we, Christians in...
Eldership in the Church
To the elders among you, I appeal as a fellow elder and a witness of Christ’s sufferings who also will share in the glory to be revealed: 2 Be shepherds o...
Joy and Judgement
When invitations to a great feat, like a wedding feast, were sent out the time was left off of the invitation. When everything for the feast was ready, servant...
Church as a Reflection of the Community
When churches were being built in America they were often built in communities by people who live in those communities. What happens when the church no longer ...
Ken Burns Civil War
The documentary film, Civil War by Ken Burns, was my first real experience with the Civil War and is probably the reason I am as interested in this period of Am...
What religious freedom isn’t
The idea of religious freedom is a bedrock of the American experience but has been used by both sides in a way that I do not think it was intended. Ameri...
Faith Without Works is Dead
“Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the wor...