Category: Pastors’ Letters

On March 4, 1861, the newly-elected Abraham Lincoln delivered his First Inaugural Address. It was a difficult time for the nation, as only two weeks prior, Jefferson Davis had been …

November is a month dominated by the holiday of Thanksgiving. (In truth, I should concede that November is overrun by the encroachment of the holiday of Christmas, thanks to merchants …

Few words are as beloved in church vocabulary as the word “mission,” yet few words are as routinely, theologically misused as the word “mission.” If asked to give a simple …

A father, who happens to be a police officer, wrote a letter to his kids, sealed it in a plain white envelope, and put it in his locker at work …

The author Toni Morrison recently gave a commencement address to the students at Rutgers University, in which she made the following comment: “I have often wished that Jefferson had not …

The English language is a language of verbs. Other languages are full of nouns. Think of German, with its long, compound words to describe persons, places, and things. By contrast, …

In today’s skeptical society, the phrase “Nullius in verba” (loosely translated as “take no one’s word for anything”) seems like the active slogan of our age. We hear one television …

African-American preacher, theologian and mystic Howard Thurman (1900-1981) wrote a wonderful poem called “The Threads in My Hand.” It begins this way: “Only one end of the threads, I hold …

On the list of best non-fiction books for 2010 is a book by Isabel Wilkerson called The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration. It is …

On the list of best non-fiction books for 2010 is a book by Isabel Wilkerson called The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration. It is …