by Richard Chrisman | Aug 26, 2017 | For a Public Theology
Sex is always in the news. How can it not be? Sex matters to everybody. Either the lack of it, the ecstasy of it, the pain of it, the surprises of it. We can’t get enough of sex, either as a newstory or the real thing. And making love always seems to be...
by Richard Chrisman | Aug 26, 2017 | For Chaplains in Higher Ed., For Religious Congregations
Your life is a story trying to be told. You are trying to tell it. Every day you come home and tell the day’s story to a mate or a friend. On your way home, on the bus or subway, or stopping at a neighborhood bar, you will hear others telling their story, too....
by Richard Chrisman | Aug 14, 2017 | For Chaplains in Higher Ed., For Religious Congregations
On Sunday, August 13, 2017, churches welcomed to Sabbath services sorrowful congregations looking for any wailing wall upon which to grieve the Charlottesville cataclysm. Another moral implosion in America’s pock-marked landscape! While we wait for national...
by Richard Chrisman | Jul 7, 2017 | For Religious Congregations
Look around the whole place. What meets the visitors’ eyes? Will they feel invited into our ministry in the larger world? The pictures on the wall, for instance. At my home church, 13 of the 17 framed photos hanging in the vestibule and the hallways and the...
by Richard Chrisman | Feb 14, 2017 | For Religious Congregations
“What is whispered in your ear, proclaim from the rooftops.” So instructs Jesus to his disciples. So are we to take insights granted to us by God and make them heard abroad. We are exhorted to transfer our private epiphanies to a public arena. How do we...
