Feature
Explorations of Nature and Neurospicy Childhoods: Moving from Inclusion to Justice in Spaces of Worship
Worship finished and I stepped into the light-filled narthex. With the postlude still swelling in air, a parent caught me on the way out. “Weren’t the stars a great idea? My son never sits still and pays attention in worship, but he was happy to cut and paste shapes for an hour!”
by Kiara Jorgenson
Liturgy
Why Baptism Matters for the Work of Dismantling Racism
Claudia Aguilar RubalcavaClaudia Aguilar Rubalcava is serving as interim pastor at Park Hill Congregational Church in Denver, Colorado. Like the waterof a deep stream,love is always too much.1—Wendell Berry Perhaps my favorite definition of the word sacrament is...
Music
On Music: Our Community Pool
Remembrances of baptism liturgies are becoming more common in Presbyterian congregations. Staff and members who experience them at conferences carry the liturgies home and put them into regular rotation each year.
Preaching
Revived through the Work of Women in the Pulpit
I’ve been feeling less imaginative lately, and I have realized that I gave away a great deal of my creativity to COVID-era videos and parking lot services. As my creativity has dwindled, my exhaustion, impatience, and thirst for fulfillment have grown. Even (and maybe especially) as society has “returned to normal,” the gumption behind my own pastoral identity still feels tasteless lately.
The Arts
A Guide for Visual Literacy
Visual literacy is the ability to access and understand meaning conveyed through images. As the church struggles to reassert its relevancy following pandemic-induced changes, might artful imagery be embraced as unselfconsciously and enthusiastically as hymnody?
