31 days of praying with each other, reading the Bible together, and learning how to build a stronger relationship...
The key to marriage is maintaining a strong bond between you and your spouse. W...
Courageous Conversations is our annual gathering that pairs black scholars, pastors, and thought leaders from progressive and conservative spaces to disc...
A brilliantly entertaining and innovative history of the ancient Athenians’ consuming passions for food, wine and sex.
Sex, shopping and fish-madness, Athenian style.
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Cousins: The Early Years of Jesus and John the Baptist is a story that starts out with John the Baptist's imprisonment by Herod Antipas. John, while in the dungeon, is thinking ab...
One of the problems in interpreting the Bible has always been the question of how much freedom the interpreter is allowed to take with the text.
In approaching this problem William Klassen decided...
A pandemic is an ideal time for us to question our feelings and thoughts in terms of fear and pain, of faith and hope, even of medication and meditation. What is touched on in these few occasional ...
On Saturday, March 14, 2020, with COVID-19 begin to rage in this country, the Session of First Presbyterian Church and I decided we should heed the warnings about in-person activities and cancel...
“Our everyday lives are moved by the energies of nature and the power of magic, which is available to all whom genuinely seek it out and recognise it within the simplest of things...
In what other language, asks Lederer, do people drive on a parkway and park in a driveway, and your nose can run and your feet can smell? In CRAZY ENGLISH, Lederer frolics through the logic-boggli...
Created For Worship is a guide for those desiring a closer walk with the Master through worship. There are individuals who attend worship services weekly, yet are unfamiliar with true w...
In a culture where gender neutrality is the ideal, why is it significant that we were created differently as male and female? As the ethical consequences of the gender debate in the last generation...
No matter what type of fiction you write, what draws readers in is the characters.If the reader doesn't care about the characters, the most gripping plot won't carry the day.
The historic myths of a people/nation usually play an important role in the creation and consolidation of the basic concepts from which the self-image of that nation derives. These concepts in...
Statistics indicate that over 80 percent of churches are plateauing or in decline. "Creating Transformational Churches" is essential for church leaders looking to develop a stra...
We're all searching. Sometimes the search is easy: simply type a question and the answer pops up. But sometimes our questions are complicated, and the answers are difficult to see and harder to ...
Cremation itself is the process of reducing the body remains to bone fragments and ashes through burning with open flames. The temperature of 1,600-2000 degrees Fahrenheit is maintained fo...