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What I’ve Learned Working with Refugees and Immigrants: Interview with Josh White

Josh White April 17, 2017

A Note From The Editor: Recently Wesleyan Accent was able to chat with Youth Specialist Josh White about his role in caring for unaccompanied alien children who arrive in the United States. He also operates EQ Roasters, a small fair-trade coffee roasting enterprise aimed at encouraging economic stability in nations from which many unaccompanied minors come. An avid musician, his

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How Artists Do Theology: The Resurrection by Philip Tallon

Philip Tallon April 13, 2017

Piero della Francesca gets thunderingly right what so many Christians get so stunning wrong. Raised on the first day of the week – a day any faithful Jew would understand as the first day of creation – God in Christ has begun the re-creation of this world. This work of making all things new is not complete, but it has

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Anxiety In Worship by Elizabeth Moyer

Elizabeth Moyer April 12, 2017

Someone living with an anxiety disorder (or any medical condition) that makes being in loud, dark areas or separated from family unendurable does not feel welcomed. This is not a commentary on the theology or religiosity of the “turn up the volume and dim the lights, no children allowed” movement. The concern here is how the Body of Christ meets

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The Celtic Cross by Tammie Grimm

Tammie Grimm April 11, 2017

With its distinctive orb that surrounds the intersecting arms that form the right angles of the Latin cross, most of us recognize the shape and design of the traditional Celtic cross. No matter our level of familiarity with the prayers, traditions and other customs of the medieval Celtic Christians, the iconic artwork of the cross is no ancient relic relegated

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Jesus Weeps, Our Tears to See by Jeff Rudy

Jeff Rudy April 6, 2017

These hymns, like the psalms, come from or speak to different experiences – some quite specific, others more general – and they express a wide variety of feelings toward God, ranging from thanksgiving and adoration to supplication to bitter grief. The hymn I came upon that had a reference to Jesus weeping was under the heading of “For a Child

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Steps For Small Church Revitalization by Elizabeth Glass Turner

elizabeth.turner April 5, 2017

Most churches aren’t big. Most churches say they want to grow. Many pastors hope to serve at big or growing churches. Most pastors won’t. It’s simply a matter of numbers in the United States: there aren’t that many megachurches. If you happen to be the pastor of one, you can sell a lot of books to pastors who want to

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What If I Get Nothing Out of Lent? by Jeff Rudy

Jeff Rudy March 30, 2017

And so, among other things I’m giving up for Lent, I’m trying to give up the search to find some other hidden meaning. Perhaps I won’t get anything out of it. We don’t enter into the Lenten season practicing disciplines in order to achieve a particular return. It’s not an investment. Fasting and praying are not disciplines that we engage

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Finding Holy In The Everyday by Carrie Carter

Carrie Carter March 29, 2017

I’m supposed to be sitting here writing something brilliant and thought-provoking. You (my audience) are well-versed in theology, social ethics, and various philosophies. You have high expectations, or you wouldn’t be here. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy a good theological debate and I am passionate about the current social crises, but right now, I’m just really loving the font

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Why Ministry? by Andy Stoddard

Andy Stoddard August 28, 2017

You can read all kinds of studies out there showing that ministry is isolating.  You see the stats that pastors experience burnout in staggering numbers.  I remember sitting in class and hearing that many of the people to your right and your left will not be there in a few years.  I remember laughing and thinking to myself, oh, not us.  We

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Differently Abled In The Church: “Life Unworthy Of Life” & The Kingdom Of God by Elizabeth Glass Turner

elizabeth.turner August 23, 2017

What does your church do with people who are differently abled, disabled, mentally handicapped, handicapped, or crippled? (All of those terms have been used in my thirty-odd trips around the sun.) Do you have someone in your church who comes in a wheelchair? Do you have training for teachers and nursery workers, preschool workers and children’s ministers on how to engage kids

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Charlottesville: Do They Really Not See? by Elizabeth Glass Turner

elizabeth.turner August 14, 2017

Today is the day after. The day after a young black man got beat up in a parking garage, the scene caught by a quick photojournalist (I can’t imagine how sore he is). The day after a stunned mom learned from reporters that her son had been arrested for plowing his car into a crowd of pedestrians (she was in complete shock).

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Letting God Continue Your Education by Edgar Bazan

Edgar Bazan August 10, 2017

When we think about the story of Creation in the Christian faith, we typically do it within the context of Genesis, the story of the past and how things came to be. One may think this creating process was settled at the beginning of time, and that God transitioned from being an entrepreneur to a manager, or worse, a mere aloof supervisor.   However, if we pay close

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When You See A Turtle On A Fencepost by Carolyn Moore

Carolyn Moore August 9, 2017

Everybody goes through seasons of spiritual “stuckness,” days or weeks or sometimes even months when you just can’t seem to get out of your spiritual bad mood. If you’ve had that experience or are there now, you’re not alone. This is a normal part of the spiritual journey. It is not a sign of weakness; to the contrary, it may well

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