What do we see when we look at the horizon from a comfortable place? It’s a distant spot that we may visit, but it can remain just barely in sight for quite a while if we aren’t moving. Especially if ...

There’s piety, and there’s discipleship. I wouldn’t want to say they can’t and don’t overlap. They often do. My personal piety runs to practices that I wouldn’t necessarily recommend to any person ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In recent weeks I’ve ruminated about retail formats and communications technology, and some of you have emailed or messaged me to ...

With Labor Day weekend, it’s common for preachers to talk about vocation, which from the Latin is literally “calling,” or how God speaks to us about what it is we are to do. Some of us are still ...

This Sunday’s readings offer three different lenses to examine what is perhaps best left mysterious: how faith works within one’s tradition. “Much will be required of the person entrusted with much, ...

In her May 23 op-ed column, "The New Temptation of Democrats," Ruth Marcus asks an important question concerning Democrats and the issue of faith: "What does it profit a party to gain a demographic ...

There are churches that are growing, and those that are closing, but if you’ve been reading this column a while, you know the net number of people attending worship services any given week is ...

This is an anniversary of sorts. Jan. 8, 2005, was my first “Faith Works” column for the Newark Advocate. You’re reading what ...