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The beauty of life amid the gloom

Reading Ecclesiastes with a senior citizen group was a deep experience. Together with a group of folks who have lived long years and seen much along the way, I discovered Ecclesiastes as that sort of deep wisdom that only becomes clear after you have lived a bit.

16 August 2022
Director, Leadership Empowerment, ABHMS
15 August 2022
ABHMS Announces Application dates for the third Co-Creators Incubator Cohort
All ethical issues depend on how we deal with this one
Christian Nationalism is a danger to our nation
A legacy of reminding
4 August 2022
The new era or the same old world: “Downton Abbey” speaks to past and present
3 August 2022
Begin retirement with a Year of Jubilee
Halting climate change—What faith communities can do
1 August 2022
The pleasures of routine—even in prayer
He had found the ring, and I could not stop crying
Invested faith
The four qualities of an effective hybrid church
23 July 2022
Are you worried?
Divided we stand
Registration Now Available for 2022 Transition Ministries Training Session
When does life begin? Reckoning with surprising answers in Scripture
General Secretary Search Committee Announces Upcoming Focus Group Sessions
The Reverend Adriene Thorne Voted Eighth Senior Minister of The Riverside Church in the City of New York
Director, Discipleship Ministries, ABHMS
19 July 2022
Teaching Does Not Equal Talking: Learning Styles and Christian Education
Harry Riggs
19 July 2022
Marks of the Transformational Leader in a Disciple-Making Church
A righteous remnant in a wicked world: Amos 5:13-24
Yemen Needs Good Neighbors
Love your enemies—the new requirement for citizenship
30 June 2022
Declarations of freedom: Reflections on Juneteenth and the Fourth of July
30 June 2022
La vida por un sueño
30 June 2022
ABHMS and CxNJL
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Answers to Complicated Questions
22 June 2022
The real kind of 'thoughts and prayers'
Here I am
National Coordinator for Learning Initiatives, Center for Continuous Learning
17 June 2022
Rising Costs Got You Down?
Minister Council hosts two sessions to discuss Code of Ethics
10 June 2022
American Baptist Churches General Secretary Releases Statement on Clergy Abuse
10 June 2022
Apply for Security Grants Today
10 June 2022
A great multitude that no one could count: A targum of Revelation 7 and 20
9 June 2022
Apply Now: Chestnut Street Baptist Church Endowment Fund Grant Applications
I can’t go back home
Spending a year in the Women’s Lectionary
Down The Worship Planning Rabbit Hole
7 June 2022
America’s existential crisis
5 Excellent Worship Elements for Trinity Sunday
3 June 2022
A Pentecost experience with Italian
Editor, The Christian Citizen
2 June 2022
In the gun violence debate, let’s stop scapegoating mental illness
Are the winds of Pentecost calling you?
1 June 2022
This Pentecost, facing new challenges and a hope-filled future
Rev. Erica Van Brakle
Director, MinistrElife & ABPS, ABHMS
31 May 2022
Summertime Preaching Series
“I tried to let them know they were safe”
Deconstruction and self-doubt
25 May 2022
Vengeance personified: A review of “The Batman”
Editor, The Christian Citizen
25 May 2022
“And yet it goes on and on in this country of ours”
Flashes of resurrection, glimpses of heaven

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