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Want to help your church connect with God’s Creation?  Try the “Who Is My Neighbor in Creation” Mapping Exercise!

A church can honor veterans and current military personnel in a ways that are appropriate and compassionate. Here are do's and don'ts.

The sermon "This Flag Has Legs" invites dialogue for listening to conflicting ideas and meanings that people attach to the flag in church.

Guest preachers and supply preachers face unique challenges and responsibilities. Here are some tips and advice.

Preaching around patriotic holidays is a difficult challenge. "Flagging the Flag -- Idolatry and Freedom" confronts Christian Nationalism.

It's bad theology to believe the U.S. flag has a place in a worship space. Here's a sermon to challenge that Christian Nationalist assumption.

A Palm Sunday sermon countering the violence of Christian Nationalism calls for trust in God and prophetic courage.

Is ChatGPT intelligent? The answer may not matter to professors or journal editors. Students could plagaraise their term papers so easily that even the smartest professor would be fooled. Journal editors are beside themselves with worry over the factual accuracy of their published articles and, like the professors, over plagairism. Virtually every academic who has experimented with ChatGPT is astonished at its high level of proficiency and uncanny capacity for assembling relevant data into reada...

Ezekiel’s sermon to the dry bones echoes across the millennia to our own time and our need for racial restoration and reparations.

The story of Jesus and the man with blindness in John 9:1-41 can counter the disability discrimination of Christian Nationalism.