Archive: Prayer for Busy People An interview with Margaret Therkelson "We busy people have to be patient with ourselves about our prayer lives and say, 'Lord, I'm doing the best I can.' He's saying, 'I know you are. Where you are is okay. Start where you are.’" Good...

Archive: Prayer That Helps You Love the Hard-to-Love By Margaret Therkelson "Wherever you have suffered deep disillusionment, know that it is not because God is not good. It's that God is trying to lead you into a deeper understanding of his faithfulness," says...

Archive: Wisdom’s Feast or Gospel’s Famine? The brewing storm over Sophia Worship By Randy Petersen For Eric Umile it started with the Sunday paper. The Philadelphia Inquirer had a front-page story February 19, 1989, on feminist religion. "Women," the paper said,...

Archive: Whose Ethics? Our Society cannot agree on common values on which common ethical standards must be based. By Charles Colson Last summer everything seemed to fall to pieces on Capitol Hill. The speaker of the House of Representatives resigned in the face of 69...

Archive: Redeeming Our Witness …We have not been faithful stewards of the legacy entrusted to us, and the United Methodist witness is at risk. By John Leith The following article is adapted from an address by Dr. John H. Leith given June 9, 1989, in Philadelphia,...