by Jeremy Bell | Jan 27, 2021 | General
By Brian Kaylor for Word & Way My son walked down the hallway of our empty church with me on a Friday last month. As I picked up a package left for me, he walked over to the door to the sanctuary and peered into the darkened room. “Oh,” he sighed, “I miss going in...
by Jeremy Bell | Jan 22, 2021 | General
A voice is heard in Ramah,weeping and great mourning,Rachel weeping for her childrenand refusing to be comforted,because they are no more.(Matthew 2:18) Mortuary workers take off their protective clothing at the entrance of a building decorated with a Christmas tree,...
by Jeremy Bell | Jan 20, 2021 | General
By Brian Kaylor for Word & Way, Jan. 20, 2021 On Tuesday evening as the nation’s COVID death toll passed 400,000, a man who knows grief too well told the nation why we needed to pause and reflect. To heal we must remember. It’s hard sometimes to remember. But...
by Jeremy Bell | Jan 19, 2021 | General
WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will take their oaths of office on Wednesday using Bibles that are laden with personal meaning, writing new chapters in a long-running American tradition — and one that appears nowhere in the law. The Constitution does not...
by Jeremy Bell | Jan 19, 2021 | General
(RNS) — The Rev. Raphael Warnock won one of Georgia’s two runoff elections for U.S. Senate and might be sworn in later this week. Will he be both a pastor and a politician? Yes, says Michael Brewer, a spokesman for the minister’s campaign, “he will remain senior...
