Feature

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?