Elisha is the apprentice of the prophet Elijah and in 2 Kings Elijah is taken up in a chariot of fire, leaving Elisha alone to carry the mantle of prophetic leadership. The young Elisha picks up the mantle of Elijah and touches the river. The waters pa…

The Rev. Jason Valendy and a clergy colleague demonstrate the basic art of Christians loving one another despite disagreementts.

Reverend Ryan Kiblinger is a doctoral candidate for a PhD in the area of Christian catechism. He and I have known one another for a while now and we have come to engage in a handful of intellectual spats over the years. It is clear that am very much ou…

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Jesus is a unique person who did things differently. Christians identify Jesus as the perfect …

May 31, 2018

Accepting Jesus as your personal Lord doesn’t mean he is your private ticket to heaven, writes the Rev. Jason Valendy.

“Is Jesus your personal Lord and Savior?”I was asked the question in college just about each week I attended the after-church-social-time at the coffee bar down the road from the church. I did not have much money and discovered that the evangelical chu…

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Being liked by Jesus,and being like Jesus,Are often assumed the same.Good News! Jesus likes us,th…

As a child there were few people in the world as intimidating as Mike Tyson. No one messed with Mike Tyson. He was small, mighty, strong and fearless – all things that I desired to be physically. As I grew older I discovered that I was not the physical…