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“Oh God, your sea is so great and my boat is so small.” This prayer of Breton fishermen speaks of human life directly and clearly. It has become the motto of the Children’s Defense Fund and is the title of a new book by the fund’s founder, Marian Wright Edelman. Admiral Hyman Rickover had it…

Our Christian faith encourages us to honor the elders who labor among us: “Let the elders who rule well be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in preaching and teaching.” (1 Timothy 5:17)  As a visible and symbolic way of honoring the distinguished service of The Reverend Dr. Benjamin P. Campbell, on…

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What’s the deal with stewardship? It’s an interesting word. Steward. Sometimes, it’s a noun. Less often, it’s a verb. How does this ancient concept apply to lives lived in this millennium? As a concept, should it apply to me as I work through my discernment? How? It’s an interesting idea. It involves action without ownership….

The worst thing of all would be for the Messiah to be born in Metropolitan Richmond this December and for all of us to miss it. Yet one wonders how in the world we could ever see it. For one thing, we are so fragmented, so without a single center, that wherever it was, most…

Rushing from the plane to find the nearest rest room, I did not pause to read more clearly the adjacent signs overhead. My initial encounter with the city of Dubai was erroneously walking into an Islamic prayer room — not a restroom. A vacation of a lifetime culminating in a mistake I could have avoided…