Spring 2016

“ Give grace to your servants, O Lord … teach our people to reply on your strength and to accept responsibilities to their fellow citizens, that they may elect trustworthy leaders and make wise decisions...

The bumper sticker read, “If you say guns kill people one more time, I will shoot you with a gun and you will (coincidently) die.” This was an especially crude expression of a gun rights advocate’s...

Serving a New Spiritual Awakening “Is it possible, I asked myself, that I’m being summoned from some deep and holy place within? Am I being asked to enter a new passage in the spiritual life ––...

“… ‘Come, you that are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world; for I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me something to...

Students. Prisoners. The Homeless. Vulnerability is a commonality in their lives. Ministers tell stories of how the needs of some of those in these three diverse groups are being served.   Learning to...

Solid Footing: An Interview with Gary Short For 27 years, volunteers staffing the foot clinics of the Medical Volunteers of Cincinnati have washed and cared for the feet of thousands and thousands of...

Often it is hard to know how to live our Christian values. Here is how one man answered a decades-old call after retiring from a successful law practice.   Although I did not realize it at the time,...

The Spiritual Vignette is a short sketch of an encounter with God, often in a surprising, always lasting, way. Next to my childhood home there stood a thirty-foot ash tree that had been there since we moved...

Each issue, Sub-Dean Manoj Mathew Zacharia of Christ Church Cathedral in Cincinnati, Ohio, answers questions of a theological or spiritual nature submitted from readers. Send your questions to...

Toxic Charity: How Churches and Charities Hurt Those They Help (And How to Reverse It) by Robert D. Lupton (Harper Collins, 2011)       Reducing Toxic Effects of Giving by H. F....

The man who underwent death and lived to tell told me to be the mentor he’s seen me be. Sent to a healer, he became too sick to even...

He walked into the garden to pray And under the hardened, gnarled tree Felt silver light in the night of the day And wondered how long it would be. His eyes moved upward to the moon How very far away it...