Pastors decide which issues to speak out about based on how it might reflect on them or hurt their ministry. They say "politics is the art of the possible", and that doesn’t only apply to politicians. Everybody does fast math when it’s time to speak up for people being hurt, because we don’t want to get hassled. And man oh man, can people hassle you. Or fire you. As a pastor, it’s a lot easier to preach about loneliness than about the genocide in Gaza. Moses did that math to

Sunday, October 11, 2026 Vanessa Urban Deuteronomy 1:6–7 · John 10:10 Watch | Listen If you were to walk into my office on any given day during the week, except Friday, I have that day off, but Monday through Thursday if you were to walk into my office, there’s one thing you would notice: there is always something playing. Sometimes it's music, but mostly it's a TV show or a movie playing in the background. Now, before you get too far with that thought, "Wait a minute, di

Sunday, October 4, 2026 The Rev. Megan Collins Watch | Listen When Dave and I were in graduate school, we were moving from our one bedroom to a two bedroom apartment in seminary housing. (You got to upgrade from one to two bedrooms if you had a baby. I'm not saying this is why we had our first child, but the two bedrooms were so much bigger.) Our new place was just down the street. The seminary wasn't really involved in the move, but they did give us one instruction: Don't d