Bill Tammeus

A small c catholic: What baffled non-evangelical Protestants in recent elections was how evangelicals could support people whose actions made a mockery of evangelical ideals.

A small c catholic: In this era of headline after headline about sexual harassment, assault and violence, we need to understand more fully the sacredness of the human body.

A small c catholic: Our congregation spent a day of service at agencies that do welfare, poverty and justice work. By day's end, I had been smacked upside the head by punitive realities of poverty.

Book Review: The authors' primary point is that the church, using the best thinking from the Reformation, must make sure that the poor, needy, marginalized and neglected are not just cared for in a kind of noblesse oblige, paternalistic way but, rather, that they become full partners in the work of the church.

A small c catholic: Perhaps religious ignorance is bliss. If you don't care about it, you won't fight over it. But what is lost if we don't understand the essential tenets of our faith?

A small c catholic: However important the theological battles were 500 years ago, many of today's people of faith are biblically and theologically illiterate. They're more interested in simply living a moral life.

A small c catholic: Beliefs about ecclesiology and theology can evolve, and we find evidence of that in the striated layers of historical confessions in the Presbyterian constitution.