Collecting My Thoughts

 Yesterday I attended two different church services, and one political gathering that opened with prayer and closed with the Doxology.  I wa...

Today is Epiphany, the day Christians celebrate the Magi searching for, finding and worshiping the baby Jesus. Sermon of Odilo of Cluny, w...

Although this is a challenge for Catholic schools and churches, it applies to all worship leaders and educators: poetry and music. Even when...

A very common phrase among Christians is, "God will meet you where you're at," and it just hurts my ears. I heard it three tim...

I am a Lutheran and our one congregation has 3 styles of worship, traditional, contemporary and loud rock, and I don't sing many of the ...

  We attend the traditional service at our Lutheran church (NALC) in Upper Arlington, Ohio.  There are two other types of services—one I c...

What a great Sunday. Church at Upper Arlington Lutheran (Lytham Rd.) with liturgy, wonderful hymns (O worship the king, Rise up, O Saints of...

http://www.hymnary.org/hymnal/ALY1976 I'm generally not a joiner, but as a age, I appreciate hymns and liturgy more. "The missi...

Here’s something American Catholics and American Protestants share—we are overly concerned about how we feel during worship.  It’s all about...

If you're skipping Sunday worship . . . This week I've been reading "A history of Lutheranism" by Eric W. Gritsch (Fortres...

4219 e.e. cummings on richard dawkins e.e. cummings wrote to his sister Elizabeth in 1954: "if you take Someone Worth Worshipping (a...

Standing Women "In the spirit of Mother Earth." This is an event being held today in 63 nations at 1 p.m., according to the Colu...