There’s been a fair amount of press coverage lately about situations where parents are refusing medical treatment for their kids based on religious reasons.  Parents are currently in court or on the run from authorities being accused of neglect.
In one case, a Wisconsin mom is on trial, charged with second degree homicide, after her 11-year-old [...]

As a Christian in a mosque, I wondered how Muslims would be treated in a church. Are churches open for visits by Muslims?

One of my favorite evenings as a pastor was the night of Ash Wednesday worship.  It was always a quieter service, a smaller crowd, a gentler pace.  No swarms of people trying to hang up coats and tripping over kids.  No last minute announcements that needed to be made.  No band going over chords at [...]

For almost sixty years, we’ve published a daily devotional booklet, first called The Family Altar and then Today. And we print hundreds of thousands of them every two months. Many on our mailing list receive the Today in bulk, for redistribution in their own congregations and neighborhoods.
Lately though, because of the economic downturn, we decided [...]

I was a Twitter skeptic before I was a Twitter convert. Why, exactly, do I need a more efficient method of delivery for the mundanities of other people’s lives? I only got hooked on Twitter – which, for the uninitiated, is basically a mini-blog – through some of its other uses: dispensing quips, bookmarking links, [...]

This morning, my friend Dave told me to check out a blog post his friend Melanie wrote about hospitality.  So in an effort to be hospitable to my cube mate, I obliged.  And what I found was something very simple, but at the same time rather thought provoking.  She wrote:
The hospitality we offer to friends [...]

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What’s your prayer for President Barack Obama?

Weeks ago I stumbled on the blog ἐν χριστῳ (how does one type that? copy and paste to the rescue!), the author recently asked: do we have to close our eyes to pray?
First, it seems to me that the Bible clearly doesn’t require Christians to close their eyes in order to have a more [...]

A recent In Light of the Gospel post relates the thoughts of Patrick Henry Reardon about how hard it is to teach prayer:
Because prayer is so deeply personal, the most prayerful people in the Bible seem downright reluctant to discuss it. The Apostle Paul, for instance, who exhorts us four times to pray always (Romans [...]

There have been several posts of interest recently about the Lord’s Prayer. In addition to the bloggers, many of the commenters are chiming in with excellent ideas:

Kevin Sam: The Lord’s Prayer is in perpetual error
Rich Rhodes: What does the Lord’s Prayer mean?
Doug Chaplin: Kerfuffles over the Lord’s Prayer
Damian Caruana: The Lord’s Prayer: Prayer or framework [...]