
Tape on the pews: As we return, let’s not repeat a failed restoration
OKLAHOMA CITY — There’s tape on the pews. It’s blue and green, and it tells us where to sit. Blue rows only. We usually end up…
OKLAHOMA CITY — There’s tape on the pews. It’s blue and green, and it tells us where to sit. Blue rows only. We usually end up…
The first time I walked into the lobby of the Wyndham Anatole in Dallas I was overwhelmed — in the best possible way. Hundreds —…
My favorite Christmas Eve memory began on the frayed, dark blue carpet of the Chicago O’Hare International Airport in 2011. We were on our way…
‘My boss is from Africa, y’know.” I’m going to miss saying that, especially to our African brothers and sisters. They’ve often reacted with disbelief…
'This is our Daniel moment.” Willie Hubbard, who ministers for a church just miles from the U.S. Capitol, spoke those words during a Christian Chronicle…
Don’t worry about Bailey McBride. “I bought five books yesterday,” he told me, “so I’m good through March.” I called Bailey, editor emeritus of…
They were about as different as two evangelists could be — Isaya Jackson and Isaac Adotey. I met them in Juba, the small, dusty…
Remember when the world was ending back in 2005? Yeah, me neither. But evidently it was a thing. I wrote about it. The day…
‘Why learn a living language when you can study a dead one?” That must have been what I told myself in high school because somehow…
Protests. Pandemic. Injustice. Enraged. Outraged. Just ... rage. And masks. In 2020, the last place I expected to find any kind of model for “how…