Sharing the Blessings
Giving. It’s a simple enough concept. We pay our bills, run our errands, and live our lives. Then on Sunday, we give whatever time, energy and money we have left over – and don’t feel we need – to God’s work. That makes us good
Category Archives: Faith & Witness
Requisition Your Supplies
Read the rest of the series The next step in survival is to gather your equipment. Later on in other chapters we will talk about some of the non-conventional weapons that God uses to fight this war, but make no mistake about it this is
Messy Marvins
Having ushered, for many years, in my Catholic parish and now at my Lutheran church, I have an observation educated by experience. Catholics are way messier than Lutherans. To put it in kindergarten-simple terms, Lutherans seem to be better than Catholics at picking up after
My Dirty Little Former Secret
Dear Christianity Today: I read My Dirty Little Former Secret by Dennis Belkofer. And I want to challenge Christianity Today to publish my story or someone’s like mine in addition to this story. My story goes something like this: Both sets of my grandparents were
Leaving Exodus: Darlene Bogle’s Story
Listen to the podcast interview Words are strange. In the Bible, the Exodus refers to coming out of the desert experience, and leaving the years of bondage to Pharaoh. It was coming into the promised land. Exodus International has taken the name and the image
Out of the Closet and Into a Box
For someone as touchy about being confined to cramped quarters as I am, coming out of the closet and telling my husband that I am a bisexual last year seemed like it would be a pretty freeing experience. So it was, for about five minutes.
There Are No Coincidences
There is a real tendency, in some modern religious circles, to discount the existence of miracles. They don’t happen every day, we are told, therefore they can never happen. Some people say this ignores the logic behind a belief in miracles. That if they happened
3 Keys to God-Honoring Relationships
As a part of my ministry, one of my most commonly received questions is “Well, if you believe God accepts both gays and straights and men and women as equals, if you don’t take all that stuff about the man as head of the woman
God Is Still Speaking
God is still speaking: The campaign Never place a period where God has placed a comma. (Gracie Allen) In 2004, the United Church of Christ produced commercials with the tagline “God is still speaking.” The controversy that erupted was not so much over the assertion
Check Your Heart
Read the rest of the series Okay, so you’ve decided to become a Christian. You’ve felt the tug on your heart and you believe in your heart that Jesus Christ died for your sins on the cross and rose again in three days. It’s the