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Marilyn Chandler McEntyre has taught at Princeton University, the College of New Jersey, Mills College, Dominican University, and Westmont College. She now teaches at the UCSF/UC Berkeley Joint Medical Program and in the University Writing Program at UC Davis. Her column for Christianity Today appeared from 2000 to 2001.
To read well is to prepare oneself to live wisely, kindly, and wittily.
Let us acknowledge, and even mourn, what we lose when worship meets media.
Hearing ‘When I was in school’ helps our children no more than it helped us.
A children’s sermon is a time to feed their imaginations, not their egos
The church suffers when pastors confuse anecdotes with parables
Hospitality is not merely good manners but a ministry of healing
Good guilt entails more than repentance for merely personal sins
Let us acknowledge, and even mourn, what we lose when worship meets media
Sometimes love is sharp, hard-edged, confusing, and seemingly unfair.