This morning we’ve got it all: we’ve got St. Nicholas, we’ve got shoplifting, we’ve got ghosts, we’ve got a revolution, and even the war on Christmas.

When Elizabeth calls Mary the mother of Jesus “Blessed among women,” she’s not just being nice; she’s putting Mary in some very interesting and elite biblical company.

In the American South, some preachers viewed the world as “properly ordered” when there was a hierarchy with white men like themselves (under God) at the top and slaves at the bottom. So what does it mean when God is born as a slave (Philippians 2:8) to a woman who describes herself as the slave…

The idea that things will keep getting worse and worse until Jesus returns is baked into modern American Christianity. It’s in the water. Is it true, though? Or is it a product of racist, slaveholding theologians in the past whose ideas were passed along uncritically into the present? How does this impact how we are…

Meditations on what God calls us to remember, and on God remembering us.

Do we give because everything belongs to God, really? Or do we give because it is one of the ways we imitate God our creator, who delights in giving and graciously gives all things to everyone? (It can be both). A few stories of giving and delight.

Presbyterians don’t have capital-S Saints, but what are we missing by not having saints? What are the stories of the people we see as saints, and what do they teach us? Pastor David Schell and several folks at church this morning share about people who have functioned as saints for them.

Bartimaeus was a blind man in the first century. Centuries later, hymnwriter Fanny Crosby was also blind, but due to a world that was more accommodating to people with visual disabilities, she was able to make a living writing. What can we learn too from Bartimaeus’s prayer?

The Psalms say some things that we might struggle to call “theologically accurate,” but many times they give us words for how we feel.

⚠Content Warning: Loss and Heartbreak⚠ Through the window of Psalm 22, we look at the feeling of being abandoned by God and consider how the Psalm, and Christ quoting it on the cross, might lead us through that sense of God being gone.