You probably don’t know Audrey Smith, but you ought to read the sermon preached at her funeral anyway. Because if you have ever lost someone who meant something to you, ever hurt, ever wondered what the heck you’re here for anyway, ever asked yourself why you are weighed down with suffering and stress, you will find within these words God’s comfort and peace, His rest … Continue reading saints by grace

  You know the smell: the one that seeps from your trash can, the one that infiltrates like the green Angel-of-Death smog on Charlton Heston’s Ten Commandments. It’s the smell of death. Decay. What you don’t know is that that’s the new smell of American evangelical churches: rotting coffee grounds and moldy orange peels. A recent RNS story outlines a new trend toward congregational composting, … Continue reading stinky cheese in church